Aleksandar Hemon quote: "I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction."

The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on i...
UTADA HIKARU

Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.
GREG BEAR

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.
JONATHAN LETHEM

I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.
ELIZABETH MOON

Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissiv...
GARY SHTEYNGART

We did not see any increased activation of the parts of the brain normally engaged during reasoning.
DREW WESTEN

Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.
ELIE WIESEL

Keep a diary/journal. Write down all things worth remembering. It may come in handy someday.
LORRIN L. LEE

I use it a lot when I go to Mexico with my mom, so it's very useful. Basically, that should come in ...
ELIZABETH PHILLIPS

I realize that I cannot live without a spiritual dimension in my life.
ELAINE PAGELS

While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The br...
WARREN FARRELL

I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distr...
PAUL THEROUX

Life without playing music is inconceivable for me. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in t...
ALBERT EINSTEIN

Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot...
EMILY BRONTE

I hate it, it is tedious... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet poin...
KATHY GRIFFIN

Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change wit...
LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI

Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change wi...
LEON ALBERTI

It's part of my nature. I get excited when trying out new stuff, whether it be an idea or equipm...
HERBIE HANCOCK

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
GOETHE

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
JOHANN VON GOETHE

I couldn't imagine a day without music. It relaxes and stimulates me in equal measure and I hate...
CHARLES KENNEDY

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to inf...
GEORGE ELIOT

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to in...
GEORGE ELIOT

I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud ...
TAWNI O'DELL

There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enoug...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novel...
DAVID GRANN

I'm taking special treatments for the cancer in my brain and in my liver. Part of the liver was ...
JIMMY CARTER

When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC

When you talk or write or film, you work with the music inside you, the music that formed you. Diffe...
ROBERT KRULWICH

Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Un...
J.K. ROWLING

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my h...
RAY CHARLES

I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.
TAIYE SELASI

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.
REMY DE GOURMONT

For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciat...
JOHN HODGMAN

When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. How...
TOM GLAZER

I don't want to write soft, easy fiction; I want to write fiction that challenges.
BRIAN A. MCBRIDE

My darlings, if I can't write dark, epic music, I can't live!
AMY LEE

Water Lilies' is an extension of my life. Without the woter the lilies cannot live, as I am without ...
CLAUDE MONET

When I look up at the stars I see a bright light you see like the stars they cannot come out without...
ANIKA SHARMA

Because I write prose, when I sat down to write a comic, it feels like my brain's working differ...
DENISE MINA

I'm a mad thinker in general. I think about everything, all the time. Especially when I write mu...
ADAM HICKS

It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one...
NICHOLSON BAKER

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.
JUDY GARLAND

In the back of your mind, when you say you want to write music for the movies, you're saying that yo...
BILL CONTI

When I need the idea, I can find it immediately. I have a horror of rewriting or deleting; the parts...
RUGGIERO LEONCAVALLO

When I need the idea, I can find it immediately. I have a horror of rewriting or deleting; the parts...
RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO

I felt some intense pain during that time, and I would say that is where the depth of this came. You...
BRIAN CROSBY

There's a big difference between us. I write non-fiction, you write fiction. I write truths that tel...
RICHARD PAUL EVANS

Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fic...
W. G. SEBALD

Music therapy was so important in the early stages of my recovery because it can help retrain differ...
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS

When you write music that expresses doubt or concern, or talks about some of the darker things that ...
TYLER JOSEPH

I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that ...
AL YANKOVIC

I think that prog rock is the science fiction of music. Science fiction speculates on what the futur...
WILLIAM SHATNER

Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never...
ISABEL ALLENDE

I write both fiction and nonfiction. I begin my fiction with the main character. The story comes lat...
DAVID A. ADLER

Nature cannot live in pollution and we cannot live without nature.
TAUSEEF SHAH

We did not see any increased activation of the parts of the brain normally engaged during reasoning....
DREW WESTEN

Music resonates in so many parts of the brain that we can’t conceive of it being an isolated thing...
DAVID BYRNE

In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no ...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON

For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have a...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON

I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life ...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON

When I came to America, I was already a writer, already published in Bosnia. I was planning to go ba...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON

It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us....
ALEKSANDAR HEMON

I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability - the uninterrupted existence of everythin...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON

To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly di...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON

I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON

New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publis...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON

I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And th...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON

I've been a Nick Cave fan since the early '80s when he was part of The Birthday Party thing ...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON

Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.
ALEKSANDAR HEMON

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.
ALEKSANDAR HEMON

And the world around me was nothing if not an infinity of distractions: cute girls, novels and comic...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON

There are moments in life when it is all turned inside out--what is real becomes unreal, what is unr...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON

While he wanted to teach me what he knew, I wanted him to see what it all looked like for me—perha...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON

I really don't feel that any of the pieces I wrote were confessions; there are no revelations ab...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON

I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to f...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.
ALEKSANDAR HEMON

When we're upset, our vocal cords tighten and we can't speak. And when I lie - well, I can&#...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON

I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing h...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON

I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place f...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON

I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germin...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON

I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow i...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON

A particular piece of music attaches itself to the piece I'm writing, and there is nothing else ...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON

When I found myself in the U.S., and the war was at full swing in Bosnia, I read for survival - it w...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON

Memory narrativises itself.
ALEKSANDAR HEMON

I did not intend to stay; I had no experience in the United States - I may have been here less than ...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON

I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how t...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON

I wish I could avoid the people who have threatened me. My favorite threat is that I will be thrown ...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON

I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON

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

The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not com...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON

All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. Th...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON

I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating t...
JEAN M. AUEL

In the back of your mind, when you say you want to write music for the movies, you're saying tha...
BILL CONTI

I can't recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers because it's going to b...
TED CHIANG

I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
ALBERT EINSTEIN

We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart;...
LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH")

I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.

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