Especially Moments When Things Are Very Difficult

We've Had Fiction From The Time Of Cave Drawings. I Think Fiction, Storytelling, And Narrative In General Will Always Exist In Some Form.

Create Dangerously, For People Who Read Dangerously. ... Writing, Knowing In Part That No Matter How Trivial Your Words May Seem, Someday, Somewhere, Someone May Risk His Or Her Life To Read Them.

No One Will Love You More Than You Love Your Pain.

There Is This Split Between The Haiti Of Before The Earthquake And The Haiti Of After The Earthquake. So When I'm Writing Anything Set In Haiti Now, Whether Fiction Or Nonfiction, Always In The Back Of My Mind Is How People, Including Some Of My Own Family Members, Have Been Affected Not Just By History And By The Present But Also By The Earthquake.

When People Think About This Religion, They'll Say "voodoo" This And "voodoo" That In The Way The Hollywood Movies Show It: The Sticking Of Pins In Dolls. It's Very Different Than Vodou - Which Is A Religion That Comes To Haiti From Our Ancestors In Africa. I Want To Differentiate It From The Stereotypical, Sensationalized View That We See Of The Religion.