I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
We're all entitled to our superstitions.
What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
At the end of the day, despite all the other great things that literature does in society and in a person's life, I think that we read to escape. And I think that place, more than anything, provides that escape quickly, if an author is engaged with the place.
A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.