99+ Aleksandar Hemon Quotes on Home, Life and Relationships - Quotes.pub

Here you will find all the famous Aleksandar Hemon quotes. There are more than 99+ quotes in our Aleksandar Hemon quotes collection. We have collected all of them and made stunning Aleksandar Hemon wallpapers & posters out of those quotes. You can use this wallpapers & posters on mobile, desktop, print and frame them or share them on the various social media platforms. You can download the quotes images in various different sizes for free. In the below list you can find quotes in various categories like Home, Life and Relationships

I never thought of myself as an outsider. Because outside of what? You would have to give advantage to this space where you’re not, to think of it as sovereign because you’re not there. I was always in the center of where I needed to be.

If I represent the world as it is as harmonious, that’s a political position.

One of the many conditions that have to be met for a brain to become a mind, and therefore have consciousness, is ‘the analog I’ around which all the simultaneous inflow of sensations and stimulations are reflected and organized.

Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself – to recount your life for educational purposes.

Anything that might come under arts should not be subject to the whims of the idiotic market because the market’s stupid, and it gravitates toward simplicity – towards essentializing things so they can be sold.

I have been on the margins in terms of having to find a place to live and getting a job, but at some point, and before that point, I always thought no matter where I am, that’s the center.

What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness – in a sense, we have to do it for the first time, every time.

You have to be taught to recognize and care about differences, you have to be instructed who you really are; you have to learn how generations of dead people and their incomprehensible accomplishments made you the way you are; you have to define your loyalty to an abstraction-based herd that transcends your individuality.

I want to change something. I want to stop the germs from attacking my daughters.

I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability – the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

As long as there are living human beings, there will be language and stories.

Stories Quotes

Whatever solidarity I have established with other writers individually, it is usually organized around books. We connected as readers, as it were, not writers.

I have a hard time imagining a country or a government where I would say, “Oh, this is good,” where I could live under a government that I respect for a day or a week, even to see what it feels like.

The balls do not make a writer.

Writing is a mode of agency in the world that is different from mere employment. There has to be some sort of ethical or moral drive, even if you are unaware of it.

To write has to be related to a drive inside.

The incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth – reality is the fastest American commodity.

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

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

Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving up the notion of the nobility of art.

You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility.

Stories Quotes

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.

We, as writers, have to figure out a way to create a consciousness in language. It’s crazy even to attempt to do that.

Wherever there’s capitalism there’s this inclination toward simplicity. There’s also a human need to process complicated things by turning them into something else.

Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide the bricks from which we build these cathedrals.

Stories Quotes

In some way there is no real life. It’s always the story of your life that you’re living.

Stories Quotes

What I was interested in is the lens organizing my sovereign space. I avoid the term outsider and also exile for the same reason. Outsider implies a kind of nobility.

I suppose I’m interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.

But nothing has ever been – nor will it ever be – the way it used to be.

Sometimes I don’t write at all. Someone once asked me, “What do you do when you’re not writing?” And I said, “I idle.”

Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write.

The way I think of my work is that I have to think up the way to tell a story, starting from scratch. The changes in the industry concern me in a general way because I think civilization is doomed.

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.

It was always clear to me that I would have to earn my readers, some I would have to find, some to create.

People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories.

Stories Quotes

I’ll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.

I believe people are much more complicated than they can handle.

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.

Stories Quotes

I like to blow up this notion that all we have to do as writers and artists is represent reality, which is presumably solid and self-evident, with no negotiation of the gap between myself and the world, between this body and this space, which needs narration to close it.

What you demand from storytelling is a moral – even political – import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect.

It is my belief that we as human beings have a need to tell stories – I think it’s evolutionary. So you can think of the short story as a literary form, or you can instead think of stories.

Stories Quotes

I end up writing something every day, since I develop six or seven things at the same time – soccer columns, this and that.

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 Quotes

There’s no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.

I like the idea of a book being a democratic space which readers enter, carrying their own thoughts, and participate in a conversation, or experience of grace.

I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don’t want to limit myself.

A particular piece of music attaches itself to the piece I’m writing, and there is nothing else I can listen to. Every day I return to the same space to write, the music providing both the walls and the pictures on the walls.

There is a point in fighting. There is a point in struggle. Not wholesale revolution, maybe, that might not be possible, an absolutely just society, but there are plenty of spaces and places where it’s worth putting up a fight.

It’s so internalized, the way your mind works in relation to anything – it’s a process, but then it isn’t. It’s working all the time.

I do believe – and I know I shouldn’t – that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can still do it if you’re not clinging to the notion of nobility.

1
2
3
4
5