You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility.

Every artist, writers included, have an ethics and an aesthetics, whether they can formulate them or not. I happen to think that it is good to be able to formulate - it is good to know what you are doing and to be able to talk about it.

Lord, why did you leave me in these woods?

When I found myself in the U.S., and the war was at full swing in Bosnia, I read for survival - it was a means of thought resuscitation.

I end up writing something every day, since I develop six or seven things at the same time - soccer columns, this and that.

We dreamt of light, but hoped for darkness.

Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide the bricks from which we build these cathedrals.