I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.

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

I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.

I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability - the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.

I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.