Phrase by 'Aleksandar Hemon'

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The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.

Author: Aleksandar Hemon - Bosniak Writer
  Life , You , Yourself , Goals


Memory narrativises itself.

Author: Aleksandar Hemon - Bosniak Writer
  Memory , Itself


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.

Author: Aleksandar Hemon - Bosniak Writer
  Life , Feel , Nothing , My Life


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

Author: Aleksandar Hemon - Bosniak Writer
  Literature , Fiction , Word , Between


I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.

Author: Aleksandar Hemon - Bosniak Writer
  Long , I Can , Situation , Retreat


I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.

Author: Aleksandar Hemon - Bosniak Writer
  Me , Some , Someone , Kind


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.

Author: Aleksandar Hemon - Bosniak Writer
  Me , Lie , Speak , Upset


When I found myself in the U.S., and the war was at full swing in Bosnia, I read for survival - it was a means of thought resuscitation.

Author: Aleksandar Hemon - Bosniak Writer
  Myself , War , Thought , Survival


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

Author: Aleksandar Hemon - Bosniak Writer
  New , New York , Money , Stars


I wish I could avoid the people who have threatened me. My favorite threat is that I will be thrown in the River Miljacka, which is at most knee-deep, with my feet bound in cement.

Author: Aleksandar Hemon - Bosniak Writer
  Me , People , Feet , River


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