Time Does Nothing But Hand You Down

Arabs Are A Complete Abstraction In The Propaganda World And All The Death And Destruction Is Completely Unreal To Americans.

Every Artist, Writers Included, Have An Ethics And An Aesthetics, Whether They Can Formulate Them Or Not. I Happen To Think That It Is Good To Be Able To Formulate - It Is Good To Know What You Are Doing And To Be Able To Talk About It.

When I Came To America, I Was Already A Writer, Already Published In Bosnia. I Was Planning To Go Back, But I Had No Choice But To Stay Here After The Civil War, So I Enrolled At Northwestern In A Master's Program And Studied American Literature.

Politics Is About Ethics And Morality, Openly Or Not Openly.

I Think About The Story While I Think About Other Things. This Is An Important Part Of The Process: I Look At It Sideways. If I Look Straight At It, It Produces Nothing Other Than What Seem Like Complicated, Brilliant Designs That Fall Apart The Following Morning. In Some Way Stories Mature When You're Not Looking.