Aleksandar Hemon Quotes About Storytelling

Quotes about: Storytelling

• The funny thing is that in Bosnia there are no words that are equivalent to fiction and nonfiction. From the storytelling point of view, the difference is artificial.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Differences, Views, Funny Things

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

• There's a social and human necessity for some kind of continuity, but it's not axiomatic and not something you're born into; it's something you have to work at. And one of the ways to work at it - perhaps the best - is storytelling: telling stories about yourself to others, telling stories about yourself to yourself, telling stories about others to others.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Telling Stories, Way, Kind

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

• 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

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

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Political, Demand, Moral

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

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