The dead are celebrated. The dead are loved. They give something to the living. Once you put something into the ground, Doctor, you always know where to find it.

I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.

My grandfather and I were very close.

We're all entitled to our superstitions.

What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.

For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.

In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.