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
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.
order world information
If you have information you've got the world by the balls. But we have to convert information into knowledge in order to make it humanly useful.
desire contentment world
The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.
people world knows
All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.
world nobody-likes-me like-me
I am just like everybody else...because there is nobody like me in the whole world.
spring tree world
The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its curses simply because the trees are coming into leaf.
skins borders world
My skin was the border between the world and me.
home nowhere-to-go world
If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world.
cords happens knows vocal
When we're upset, our vocal cords tighten and we can't speak. And when I lie - well, I can't lie, because the same thing happens - everyone who knows me knows that when I start squeaking, I've started lying.
calling continuity separates time trouble
The trouble with calling a book a novel, well, it's not like I'm writing the same book all the time, but there is a continuity of my interests, so when I start writing a book, if I call it 'a novel,' it separates it from other books.
ask certainly confess confessing life pieces secrets wrote
I really don't feel that any of the pieces I wrote were confessions; there are no revelations about secrets in my life, and actually I have nothing to confess and I certainly do not ask for redemption and there is no reward for confessing that I expect.
best praise time worst
You are always working on your worst book and your best book at the same time. The praise does not make you write better, and it shouldn't make you write worse, either.