I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.

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

A particular piece of music attaches itself to the piece I'm writing, and there is nothing else I can listen to. Every day I return to the same space to write, the music providing both the walls and the pictures on the walls.

I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.

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

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.