Sometimes 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 HemonIt is my belief that we as human beings have a need to tell stories - I think it's evolutionary. So you can think of the short story as a literary form, or you can instead think of stories.
Aleksandar HemonThere's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we are the main characters.
Aleksandar HemonProjecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity
Aleksandar Hemon