I also did a great amount of writing while doing research. It gave me the opportunity to meet … - Sasa Stanisic

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Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither.

Sasa Stanisic

I also did a great amount of writing while doing research. It gave me the opportunity to meet and talk to people other than family, but also to explore my own memory deeper by comparing it to the memories of others who were in my home town during, for example, the political transition from socialism to a nationalistic "democracy" or during the bombings.

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A book is not only written - after it's finished it starts writing you, the writer. You become its notebook, its sheet of paper on which it forces you to think and rethink your original ideas, your topics, your research, actually everything.

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Never too late to learn a language. And the good literature to come with it.

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Writing about a war will always be political writing, no matter what amount of hermetical hide-and-seek or aesthetical operations are involved.

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By changing the way I experienced things, even just involving different details than in reality, I often felt I was betraying the past and playing an unfair game with the reader where he (of course) would ask himself "Did this really happen?"

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It can stand in the way of narration in cases where we want the protagonist to actually go through some kind of catharsis while our own (non-fictional) experiences and stories lead to something banal or completely uninteresting.

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