My Country's Main Exports Are Stolen Cars

It Is So Much Easier To Deal With The Dead Than With The Living. The Dead Are Out Of The Way, Merely Characters From Stories About The Past, Never Again Unreadable, No Misunderstandings Possible, The Pain Coming From Them Stable And Manageable. Nor Do You Have To Explain Yourself To Them, To Justify The Fact Of Your Life.

I Resist When Someone Calls Me A Novelist: It Implies Some Kind Of Inherent Superiority Of The Novel. I'm Not A Novelist, I'm A Writer.

In Bosnian, There's No Distinction In Literature Between Fiction And Nonfiction; There's No Word Describing That.

No Reader Owes Me Anything - I Am Owed Nothing For My Noble Efforts, Because My Writing Was Always Unconditional, Always Coming Out Of Inner Necessity.

Wherever There's Capitalism There's This Inclination Toward Simplicity. There's Also A Human Need To Process Complicated Things By Turning Them Into Something Else.