Outsider means "I will accept the possibility that I don't have responsibility for what is happening inside my domain."

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

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

Outsider means "I will accept the possibility that I don't have responsibility for what is happening inside my domain."

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.

I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.

We apply the language that is comforting and comfortable and familiar in order to grasp that which confuses and scares us. That is the first step toward cliché and stereotype, as they're comforting devices. They reduce the confusing world to the already familiar. We're always smoothing out the bumps of actual living to turn it into narratable life.