Aleksandar Hemon
Aleksandar Hemon
Aleksandar Hemonis a Bosnian-born American fiction writer, essayist, and critic. His best known novels are Nowhere Manand The Lazarus Project...
NationalityBosniak
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth9 September 1964
sometimes far-away
Because sometimes you have no control over life and it keeps you far away from who you love.
self talking pity
Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity
mind way working-all-the-time
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.
hands doe
Time does nothing but hand you down shabbier and older things.
waiting care existence
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.
forget-everything pieces paper
I dont make notes for myself because I either lose them or they make no sense to me at all. I once found a piece of paper with the note: everything. Apparently I made a note to myself not to forget everything!
deeper
Where can you go from nowhere, except deeper into nowhere?
matter lost loses
The more you lose, the more is to be lost, yet it matters less.
pain character past
It is so much easier to deal with the dead than with the living. The dead are out of the way, merely characters from stories about the past, never again unreadable, no misunderstandings possible, the pain coming from them stable and manageable. nor do you have to explain yourself to them, to justify the fact of your life.
morning fall thinking
I think about the story while I think about other things. This is an important part of the process: I look at it sideways. If I look straight at it, it produces nothing other than what seem like complicated, brilliant designs that fall apart the following morning. In some way stories mature when you're not looking.
school writing important
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.
memories legends fantasy
Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend.
running writing thinking
There are many things I think about that never get to the point of becoming serious. In other words, I try to talk myself out of writing, sometimes for many years, and when I run out of arguments, I write.
reality people fantasy
The incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth - reality is the fastest American commodity.