A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.
I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.
When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don't know why, but it calms me, calms my brain.
In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
