Aleksandar Hemon Way Quotations

We, as writers, have to figure out a way to create a consciousness in language. It's crazy even to attempt to do that.

You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility.

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.

It's so internalized, the way your mind works in relation to anything - it's a process, but then it isn't. It's working all the time.

I'm bright, but there are lots of bright writers and people everywhere. In no way, at no point do I think I'm better than them.