If you're a so-called minority writer, the temptation is to write for the majority... I refuse to do that.

If you're a so-called minority writer, the temptation is to write for the majority... I refuse to do that.

People might like to think a war is done when a cease fire is signed, but for most people who lived through a war it goes on for decades.

No one wants for their child to become a refugee. It's an awful experience.

The refugees are not only going to be a demand on the country's resources, but also the refugees raise the possibility that the countries that they're going to are themselves not as stable as the citizens would like, I think. We're all just one catastrophe away from ending up as a refugee, and we don't want to be reminded of that.

In the United States, we want to believe we will never become a country of refugees.

Growing up in the U.S., I was certainly deeply aware of the power of American media, specifically Hollywood and television, in terms of broadcasting a particular vision of what the American experience was like. As someone coming from a war that was a preoccupation of Americans in the 1980s, it did strike me that since we were a part of that war, we should have a chance to talk about ourselves.