I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.
Aleksandar HemonRilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write.
Aleksandar HemonOne builds one's life in consistency; one invests it with the belief, however unsupported by reality, that one has always been what one is now, that even in one's distant past one could recognize the seed from which this doomed flower has bloomed.
Aleksandar Hemon