I like the idea of a book being a democratic space which readers enter, carrying their own thoughts, and participate in a conversation, or experience of grace.

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

A particular piece of music attaches itself to the piece I'm writing, and there is nothing else I can listen to. Every day I return to the same space to write, the music providing both the walls and the pictures on the walls.

Because sometimes you have no control over life and it keeps you far away from who you love.

Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.

In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.

There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we are the main characters.