Aleksandar Hemon Quotes About Literature

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  • When I came to America, I was already a writer, already published in Bosnia. I was planning to go back, but I had no choice but to stay here after the civil war, so I enrolled at Northwestern in a master's program and studied American literature.

    War   America   Choices  
  • I started appreciating and valuing different things. Some things just became insufferable to me, and not just literature. I used to like horror movies and now I couldn't stand them.

    "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Rachel Dewoskin, therumpus.net. April 14, 2013.
  • Europe is a rapidly changing place, on every level. Immigration, post-communist transitions, the unification, steady presence of war and conflict, the inescapable challenges to the notion of national literature/culture-it all exerts pressure upon writers who must be aware of the transformational possibilities of the situation.

    "Against Eternal Provincialism: An Interview with Aleksandar Hemon". The Amazon Book Review Interview, www.amazonbookreview.com. December 16, 2009.
  • You can see the diversity that pieces in the anthology represent, and then the interconnections-obvious and less obvious-between various stories or between various modes of storytelling. Diversity generates need for conversation, conversation generates common interests, as well as differences. Literature, as a human project, is all about that.

    Source: www.omnivoracious.com
  • The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction.

    "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.
  • For a fight to be productive, or at least relevant, writers should fight over different demands they put upon writing (as an individual, private act) and literature (a network of relations in which we are all involved).

    Interview with Colum McCann, www.believermag.com. January, 2010.
  • I've read books in school that were written by ideological rote - they were brainwashers. Therefore, any art, any literature, that has a clearly defined political goal is repellent to me.

    Art   Book   School  
    Interview with Colum McCann, www.believermag.com. January, 2010.
  • I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.

    Interview with Colum McCann, www.believermag.com. January, 2010.
  • 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
  • In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.

  • It's not that war crimes stop as soon as a novel about them is published. Literature operates slowly, it is always inching toward bliss, never quite getting there.

    Interview with Colum McCann, www.believermag.com. January, 2010.
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