Aleksandar Hemon
Aleksandar Hemon
Aleksandar Hemonis a Bosnian-born American fiction writer, essayist, and critic. His best known novels are Nowhere Manand The Lazarus Project...
NationalityBosniak
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth9 September 1964
thinking people way
I'm bright, but there are lots of bright writers and people everywhere. In no way, at no point do I think I'm better than them.
expectations temperament dilettantes
I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation.
writing bad-writing language
There's no bad writing; you did something. I was operating inside language, and I did something. I'm not ashamed of it.
home islands numbers
I don't know the numbers, but roughly half of the people who came through Ellis Island returned home. They came here to make money, not to make history.
america chicago immigration
Chicago is not a bad place to live. But the usual story of immigration is the happy fulfillment of human potential in America that is not available anywhere else - it's propaganda, really. It's more complicated than that.
running writing thinking
There are many things I think about that never get to the point of becoming serious. In other words, I try to talk myself out of writing, sometimes for many years, and when I run out of arguments, I write.
morning fall thinking
I think about the story while I think about other things. This is an important part of the process: I look at it sideways. If I look straight at it, it produces nothing other than what seem like complicated, brilliant designs that fall apart the following morning. In some way stories mature when you're not looking.
political world unjust
An unjust world represented as harmonious is a political position.
political world position
If I represent the world as it is as harmonious, that's a political position.
world propaganda destruction
Arabs are a complete abstraction in the propaganda world and all the death and destruction is completely unreal to Americans.
jobs matter places-to-live
I have been on the margins in terms of having to find a place to live and getting a job, but at some point, and before that point, I always thought no matter where I am, that's the center.
domain
Everyone operates within their own domain and obviously those domains overlap to a great extent.
thinking space giving
I never thought of myself as an outsider. Because outside of what? You would have to give advantage to this space where you're not, to think of it as sovereign because you're not there. I was always in the center of where I needed to be.
self outsiders congress
Washington D.C.! Congress is full of self-declared outsiders.