It is a bit more challenging for the simple fact that now the stories I am writing are … - Sasa Stanisic

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

The text [The Skeptical Environmentalist] employs the strategy of those who, for example, argue. . . that Jews weren't singled out by the Nazis for extermination.

Sasa Stanisic

It is a bit more challenging for the simple fact that now the stories I am writing are relying more on my imagination than on facts, more on research than on memory; so it is basically a slower writing process, more reading, more exploring. On the other hand, this approach is a little bit relieving too, since many times while writing [How the Soldieer Repairs the Gramophone] I felt too close and equal to my character.

Basically, Character, Close, Memories, Reading, Relying

Same Author Quotes

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.

Notebook, Research, Thinking, Writing, Written

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

Come, Good, Language, Literature

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

Amount, Operations, Political, War, Writing

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?"

Experienced, Games, Happen, Past, Reality, Unfair

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.

Banal, Catharsis, Protagonist, Stand, Stories, Want