“Here, some might think that my dedication to work reflects a desire to cling to life, or a love for life despite the occupation’s attempts to destroy it, or the insistence that we have on this earth what makes life worth living. Well, I certainly cannot speak for anyone else, but in my case, it’s rather that I am unable to evaluate situations rationally, and I don’t know what should or should not be done.”

The novel of the future: In chapters devoted to the pursuit of the hidden self, the genesis of fiction, and the relationship between the diary and fiction, she addresses the materials, techniques, and nourishment of the arts, and the functions of art itself.

Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood written by Barbara Demick:

“I knew the street I wanted to write about the first time I walked up it. Even battered by war, it was a beautiful street, rising uphill at a perfect perpendicular angle from the main thoroughfare, three white minarets piercing the sky above red rooftops. I spent the better part of two years on Logavina Street, knocking on doors, drinking coffee from people who could barely afford it, hearing their tragedies. Their stories formed the basis of a series of articles and later were woven into a book.”

Drive Your Plow over the bones of the dead tackles themes like: the rights of women, of animals, injustice, the hypocrisy of traditional religion, morality vs the law, humanism, free will vs determinism, man vs nature, the Anthropocene and astrology.