Aleksandar Hemon Quotes About Language

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  • Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language.

    Stories  
    Interview with Colum McCann, www.believermag.com. January, 2010.
  • I want a book to contain a world - indeed the world. Writing is my main means of engagement with the world and I want the scars of that engagement to be left in the language.

    Book   Writing  
    Interview with Colum McCann, www.believermag.com. January, 2010.
  • We, as writers, have to figure out a way to create a consciousness in language. It's crazy even to attempt to do that.

    "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.
  • We apply the language that is comforting and comfortable and familiar in order to grasp that which confuses and scares us. That is the first step toward cliché and stereotype, as they're comforting devices. They reduce the confusing world to the already familiar. We're always smoothing out the bumps of actual living to turn it into narratable life.

    "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.
  • Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and even if the interpretation is not available, the experience of language is.

    Source: www.believermag.com
  • As long as there are living human beings, there will be language and stories.

    Interview with Colum McCann, www.believermag.com. January, 2010.
  • There's no bad writing; you did something. I was operating inside language, and I did something. I'm not ashamed of it.

    "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Rachel Dewoskin, therumpus.net. April 14, 2013.
  • Europe has never been a monolithic space, it contains a lot of people, a lot of languages and infinite supplies of history. I didn't need to do anything to showcase diversity. It is a condition of life and art in Europe, contained in every random sample.

    Art   Diversity  
    "Against Eternal Provincialism: An Interview with Aleksandar Hemon". The Amazon Book Review Interview, www.amazonbookreview.com. December 16, 2009.
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