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In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything fed into the industrial machinery to comply with rules of size and length and shelf-life has a hard time surviving as art. Alberto Manguel

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We seem to live a culture that doesn't want blemishes. The vision of most beautiful models... airbrushed in order to be seen as perfect, infects our notion of how literature should be written. Alberto Manguel

Beautiful Culture Vision Most Beautiful Seen Live Our Seem Perfect Written Most How Models Order Want Literature Should Notion

There's a reason there are 50,000 cop shows and firefighter shows: Watching them is cool. Alec Berg

Firefighter Them Reason Cool Shows Cop Watching

The amounts of money in Silicon Valley are staggering. Alec Berg

Money Valley Silicon Silicon Valley Staggering Amount

Somebody writing a subroutine is unbelievable boring. Alec Berg

Writing Somebody Boring Unbelievable

'The Practice' is one of my favorite shows of all time, and the first few seasons of that show were amazing, and then when they started winning the big case, it just got less interesting. Alec Berg

I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop. Aleksandar Hemon

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I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation. Aleksandar Hemon

Wait Situation Out Tend True Most Mature Fiction Grew Stories

I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that. Aleksandar Hemon

Life Bad Take Make America Any Place Which Agency Choices

I did not intend to stay; I had no experience in the United States - I may have been here less than 24 hours - but I knew I would never get inside there. And 'there' not being America necessarily, but that harmonious mode of living that some people are lucky enough to have in this country. Aleksandar Hemon

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In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that. Aleksandar Hemon

Word Distinction Bosnian Between Nonfiction Fiction Literature Describing

I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat. Aleksandar Hemon

Long Situation Write Writer Retreat Reader Any

When we're upset, our vocal cords tighten and we can't speak. And when I lie - well, I can't lie, because the same thing happens - everyone who knows me knows that when I start squeaking, I've started lying. Aleksandar Hemon

I wish I could avoid the people who have threatened me. My favorite threat is that I will be thrown in the River Miljacka, which is at most knee-deep, with my feet bound in cement. Aleksandar Hemon

Me People Will Wish Favorite Threat Threatened Could Thrown River Bound Feet Most Cement Which Avoid Who

I 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

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A particular piece of music attaches itself to the piece I'm writing, and there is nothing else I can listen to. Every day I return to the same space to write, the music providing both the walls and the pictures on the walls. Aleksandar Hemon

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I actually didn't listen to the Beatles song 'Nowhere Man' when I was writing my book of the same name. What I listened to a lot was 'Abbey Road.' Its disjointedness and its readiness to confuse only to delight were inspiring to me. Aleksandar Hemon

I am a wanderer passionately in love with life. Aleksandr Kuprin

Life Love Am Passionately Wanderer

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