I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces in English, and one of them got published in a literary magazine and that's how it got started. After that, graduate school didn't seem very important.
Aleksandar HemonAll the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.
Aleksandar HemonProjecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity
Aleksandar Hemon