Aleksandar Hemon Professions : Writer Born : September 9, 1964 Browse All Authors Top 166 quotes by Aleksandar Hemon 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. Aleksandar Hemon sovereign lenses space Every artist, writers included, have an ethics and an aesthetics, whether they can formulate them or not. I happen to think that it is good to be able to formulate - it is good to know what you are doing and to be able to talk about it. Aleksandar Hemon able artist thinking I really don't feel that any of the pieces I wrote were confessions; there are no revelations about secrets in my life, and actually I have nothing to confess and I certainly do not ask for redemption and there is no reward for confessing that I expect. Aleksandar Hemon my-life nothing feel life When we're upset, our vocal cords tighten and we can't speak. And when I lie - well, I can't lie, because the same thing happens - everyone who knows me knows that when I start squeaking, I've started lying. Aleksandar Hemon lie me upset speak The trouble with calling a book a novel, well, it's not like I'm writing the same book all the time, but there is a continuity of my interests, so when I start writing a book, if I call it 'a novel,' it separates it from other books. Aleksandar Hemon start writing time book You are always working on your worst book and your best book at the same time. The praise does not make you write better, and it shouldn't make you write worse, either. Aleksandar Hemon best you time book Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors