The Balls Do Not Make

I Hate Traveling And Being Away From My Family. But I Like Meeting My Readers, As What I Write Is Actualized In Them. Those Encounters Are Exhilarating To Me.

Even If You Tried To Extinguish Your Personality, What Is Left In The Story Will Reflect It, Perhaps By Its Negation. Our Lives Provide The Bricks From Which We Build These Cathedrals.

I Gradually Became Aware That My Interiority Was Inseparable From My Exteriority, That The Geography Of My City Was The Geography Of My Soul.

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.

We Hated Pretentiousness; It Was A Form Of Self-hatred.