The funny thing is that in Bosnia there are no words that are equivalent to fiction and nonfiction. From the storytelling point of view, the difference is artificial.

Lord, why did you leave me in these woods?

I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.

It's difficult for me to understand how it was possible to live under the Bush regime for eight years and then just roll over and do other things.

If you find yourself as a person in unfamiliar territory, you will grasp on to what is already familiar.

I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.

Anything that might come under arts should not be subject to the whims of the idiotic market because the market's stupid, and it gravitates toward simplicity - towards essentializing things so they can be sold.