I like the idea of a book being a democratic space which readers enter, carrying their own thoughts, and participate in a conversation, or experience….

The funny thing is that in Bosnia there are no words that are equivalent to fiction and nonfiction. From the storytelling point of view, the differen….

I want a book to contain a world - indeed the world. Writing is my main means of engagement with the world and I want the scars of that engagement to….

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings..

I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise..

Europe has never been a monolithic space, it contains a lot of people, a lot of languages and infinite supplies of history. I didn't need to do anyth….

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there..

I don't think that everyone should have a philosophical answer to any given question. There are things that need to be done..

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon..

There are moments in life when it is all turned inside out--what is real becomes unreal, what is unreal becomes tangible, and all your levelheaded ef….

My skin was the border between the world and me..

One builds one's life in consistency; one invests it with the belief, however unsupported by reality, that one has always been what one is now, that ….

You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility..

Where can you go from nowhere, except deeper into nowhere?.

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul..

I believe people are much more complicated than they can handle..

If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world..

The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is..

In some way there is no real life. It's always the story of your life that you're living..

There's no bad writing; you did something. I was operating inside language, and I did something. I'm not ashamed of it..

I loved you because there was no other place for me to go. We were married because we did not know what else to do with each other. You never knew me….