In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between...... Quote by "Aleksandar Hemon"

In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.
— Aleksandar Hemon

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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.
— Aleksandar Hemon

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For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have access to, but if you don't have the objects then there are holes in your life. This is why people in Bosnia - if anyone was running back into a burning house, it was to salvage photos.
— Aleksandar Hemon

Tags: house, people, you, life

New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money.
— Aleksandar Hemon

Tags: hollywood, new, stars, money

I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces in English, and one of them got published in a literary magazine and that's how it got started. After that, graduate school didn't seem very important.
— Aleksandar Hemon

Tags: everything, writing, important, school

I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.
— Aleksandar Hemon

Tags: cannot, live, brain, music