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.

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

You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happen in someone else's life either.

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.

When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.

I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!