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Quote by Aleksandar Hemon

“To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.”

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Aleksandar Hemon is a Serbian-American writer known for his unique literary style and profound humanistic concerns. His works focus on themes of immigration, identity, and individual experience, and have won him a wide readership. more

“I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily.”

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Author:Amy Hempel

“I'm not first and foremost interested in story and the what-happens, but I'm interested in who's telling it and how they're telling it and the effects of whatever happened on the characters and the people.”

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Author:Amy Hempel

“Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one.”

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Author:Amy Hempel

“Love is boundary-less.”

Love Is Boundaries

Author:Angel Haze

“There's a huge difference between who I am when I make music and who I am the rest of the time.”

Differences Huge Who I Am

Author:Angel Haze

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