When I Look At My Old Pictures,

Because Sometimes You Have No Control Over Life And It Keeps You Far Away From Who You Love.

Europe Is A Rapidly Changing Place, On Every Level. Immigration, Post-communist Transitions, The Unification, Steady Presence Of War And Conflict, The Inescapable Challenges To The Notion Of National Literature/culture-it All Exerts Pressure Upon Writers Who Must Be Aware Of The Transformational Possibilities Of The Situation.

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.

I Have Been On The Margins In Terms Of Having To Find A Place To Live And Getting A Job, But At Some Point, And Before That Point, I Always Thought No Matter Where I Am, That's The Center.

Language Is So Inherent To Humanity, So Necessary For Even Basic Thinking, That Stories And Poetry Are Available To Anyone Who Can Process Language.