Aleksandar Hemon Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a lot of them, but most of them I have not read yet. I'll read them when they call me from the shelf.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Book, Reading, Logic

• 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.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Book, Ideas, Space

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

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

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Book, Solidarity, Reader

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

• To me, the solidarity of readers is far more important than the solidarity of writers, particularly since readers in fact find ways to connect over a book or books, whatever they may be.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Book, Important, May

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

• My books have been published all over Europe. They read me there, and I want to read them back. I also spend a lot of time in Europe, often meeting writers, and I'm sick of apologizing for the embarrassing shortage of translations in America.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Book, Sick, Apologizing

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

• I actually didn't listen to the Beatles song 'Nowhere Man' when I was writing my book of the same name. What I listened to a lot was 'Abbey Road.' Its disjointedness and its readiness to confuse only to delight were inspiring to me.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Song, Book, Writing

• To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Book, Differences, Shapes

  "Life before loss". Interview with Sophie Harrison, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2008.

• I want a book to contain a world - indeed the world. Writing is my main means of engagement with the world and I want the scars of that engagement to be left in the language.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Book, Writing, Mean

  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.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Art, Book, School

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

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