There's no bad writing; you did something. I was operating inside language, and I did something. I'm not ashamed of it.
Aleksandar HemonThere are many things I think about that never get to the point of becoming serious. In other words, I try to talk myself out of writing, sometimes for many years, and when I run out of arguments, I write.
Aleksandar HemonSometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, "What do you do when you're not writing?" And I said, "I idle."
Aleksandar HemonWhen I was young, I was all about personal sovereignty and that junk, because there was no privacy and the available ideologies were collective, both socialism/communism and nationalism.
Aleksandar Hemon