17 Quotes by Josip Novakovich

You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing than while not writing...

But that did not make Mirko happy - the world was melting away; what was a grade compared with the world? He gazed through the windows and watched the thickly falling snow.

He must have given up on image making because his eyes had failed to see something they had yearned for; his mind had failed to capture whatever it had hoped, and that probing gaze perhaps expressed alarm at the emptying of his vision, at the dissolution of the things see, observed, into a meaningless vastness.

You don’t need to wait for inspiration to write. It’s easier to be inspired while writing that while not writing...

Dialogue is easy. It’s what you’ve been doing almost every day, most of your life.

Justin Hermann is one of the best new voices in short fiction-deep and entertaining as hell, with many funny lines, unexpected turns of events, and great insights. Wonderful stories: each one is a trip!

This was his third attempt to escape Yugoslavia, for which he was rewarded by two years of treatment in the insane asylum. The official political reasoning was simple: if you wanted to leave a healthy society like socialist Yugoslavia to live in the decadent West, you were insane.

Fiction is an expressionist painting rather than a photograph.

My friend gave me an opportunity to be bad, that is, free.