Aleksandar Hemon Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• 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.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Art, Book, School

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

• 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.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  War, Literature, Never Quit

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

• 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.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Appreciate, Different, Literature

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Rachel Dewoskin, therumpus.net. April 14, 2013.

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

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Fiction, Literature, Bosnians

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

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Writing, Fiction, Literature

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

• 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.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  War, America, Choices

• 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.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  War, Challenges, Literature

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

• 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.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Stories, Literature, Language

  Source: www.believermag.com

• 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.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Diversity, Literature, Common

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

• I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Writing, Literature, Assumption

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

• 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).

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Writing, Fighting, Different

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

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