The Past Is Like The Hair On

We Need Literature Because We Wouldn’t Fully Know Ourselves Without It. We Need Good Literature To Be Fully Human.

Sometimes We Mask Ourselves To Further Reveal Ourselves, And It's Always Been Connected To Me With Being A Writer: We Tell Lies To Tell A Greater Truth. The Story Is A Mask; The Characters You Create Are Masks. That Appeals To Me. Aside From That, Too, In The Carnival The Masks Were Beautiful, And Offered A Vision Of Haitian Creativity.

Someone Has Said That Nations Have Interests, They Don't Have Friends, And You See That Over And Over In U.s. Policy.

After Writing Fiction For So Long, I Like The Discovery Element Of Nonfiction, In The Sense That When You Find The Right Information, It Feels Like Gold.

I Think Novels Just Really Show Us The Deepest Parts Of People's Hearts, And You Cannot Walk Away Anymore And Say, "i Don't Know."