Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, "What do you do when you're not writing?" And I said, "I idle."

Everyone operates within their own domain and obviously those domains overlap to a great extent.

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

I hate traveling and being away from my family. But I like meeting my readers, as what I write is actualized in them. Those encounters are exhilarating to me.

You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.

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.

What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect.