Aleksandar Hemon Fiction Quotations

I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.

I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.

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

What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first time, every time.

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