Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms

"There are literary works that speak for themselves and there are writers who boast through work."

"Many writers were better before they became famous."

"Names do not write poems nor do they create work."

"Anyone who writes can be called a writer because they write."

"Those who would like to become writers attend courses on writing poetry and prose and analyze their own work and that of other writers in development. Teachers teach them that talent is not required and that anyone, who wants to be a writer, can do it if they only master the technique of writing and master the formulas of the genre that they choose. With a little brain storming ideas written on cards, as well as designs and plans on the table, one can even write a novel in a month. There is no secret; the whole secret is in the technique, a little research, and the rest is solved by form, according to a formula, in which it is all nicely wrapped up and packaged. And so, a bestseller is born."

"What are all these writers fighting for? For their own victory or for the victory of their profession?"

"Unwritten words grow out of silence."

"In its proper role, a number counts the missing words."

"A number is still very accurate, but its role is changed. In the changed role this number enriches the silence."

"We don’t know who was tricked by whom. Did the writer deceive the word, or did the word deceive the writer?"

"A word was more valuable to them when they were not sure of its value. Since they became famous, their word has been more expensive but its value is less."

"It is easy to arrange the words in a story born out of a dream; for a story without a dream, a story itself is not enough."

"There are too many literati, yet very few are smart; knowledge is acquired far too easily."

"Through memory to knowledge on the way to stars that are stepping down to the stuffy rooms of modern bureaucrats, illuminating their ceilings, their horizons where everything is easily resolved by the piles of paper and recipes for how to live, create, run, eat, breathe, learn how to love, how to make love, how to sleep, how to dream, how happiness is achieved under the artificial stars of the new sky that emerged from the bureaucratic rooms of aspiring and impotent minds, unable to love, even though they had all their life to learn what they preach."