People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories.

When I came to America, I was already a writer, already published in Bosnia. I was planning to go back, but I had no choice but to stay here after the civil war, so I enrolled at Northwestern in a master's program and studied American literature.

An unjust world represented as harmonious is a political position.

I cannot think of a country in which I would be happy with the government and dominant ideology and available propaganda.

My country's main exports are stolen cars and sadness.

I'm not nervous if I think about something for nine years and then I don't write it. Even if it fades it doesn't concern me. It'll come back if it's worth it.

I want to make money, and I would like to have a lot of money, but I still believe that the only reason to write is that somehow it will make something or somebody better.