Aleksandar Hemon Quotes

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

I don't care whether the story is real or fantastical. I tell the story that needs to be told.

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

I was always at heart a novelist and wanted to tell a bigger story, so I wanted to create people who told other kinds of truths than literal truths.

Literature, of course, is not a contest.

Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

I'm always interested in storytelling and whatever form that comes in.

I am really interested in storytelling in general - nothing is off-limits!

I don't have anything to prove as a writer anymore. I write about Panera Bread or Red Lobster or Satan or Richard Ramirez or whatever comes to mind. I just write.

I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy.

I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.

I'll take a certain concern of my own or a situation and try to frame it around a fictional story, but sometimes just straight-up autobiographical songs work well, and sometimes a story is better. I like stories. I like to hear them. I don't think there are enough of them in songs anymore.

I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge.

I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.

I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as a mode of truth-telling, self-expression and homage to the twin miracles of creation and consciousness.

There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.

Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre.

Novels give you the opportunity to create a whole world. Because you create people, you make them talk... You decide who they are, whether they live or die. It's the closest thing to feeling like a god that you can come to.

I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

I've always played that edge of fact and fiction. I used to be a filmmaker, and certainly in film that's a line that filmmakers cross more readily and more easily than novelists.

In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.

Writing is writing to me. I'm incapable of saying no to any writing job, so I've done everything - historical fiction, myths, fairy tales, anything that anybody expresses any interest in me writing, I'll write. It's the same reason I used to read as a child: I like going somewhere else and being someone else.