If you have information you've got the world by the balls. But we have to convert information into knowledge in order to make it humanly useful.
Aleksandar HemonIn Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.
Aleksandar HemonTo me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.
Aleksandar HemonI 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 Hemon