Aleksandar Hemon Quotes

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

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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
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