I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“For so long this had been my life, but it was all in the past. Now we all had to try and… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Life's hard in Haiti right now. And the hardest thing is that the future does not lie with one person. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
The past is like the hair on our head. I moved to New York when I was twelve, but you always have… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
When I meet people for the first time, I always put on my glasses because I feel like that's a little something… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I love the process of cracking the spine for the first time and slowly sinking into a book. That will soon seem… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I don't know what will happen to the physical book and what it will mean for authors. I worry whether it will… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
It seemed from the media that we were being told that all Haitians had AIDS. At the time, I had just come… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“The only way to save them is to immediately sever them from the place where they are born. Otherwise they will always… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“Que diga amor? Love? Hate? Speak to me of things the world has yet to truly understand, of the instant meaning of… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like a… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“Instead I dreamt of walking out of the world, of spending all my time inside with no one to talk to, and… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
The best moment in writing any book is when you just can't wait to get back to the writing, when you can't… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“Medicare rewards doctors far better for doing procedures than for assessing whether they should be done at all.” — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share
I love the process of cracking the spine for the first time and slowly sinking into a book. That will soon seem old-fashioned, I'm… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share
I remember reading an interview with a writer who said that in nonfiction if you have one lie it sort of messes it up.… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share
“Instead I dreamt of walking out of the world, of spending all my time inside with no one to talk to, and no one… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share
I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part,… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share
Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share
“From her experience working with the weak and the sick, she'd learned that the disease you ignore is the one that kills you, so… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share
I'm not saying Cubans don't deserve asylum, but if it is a national security issue, there are people who are coming from Cuba on… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share
I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share
All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share
I very much love a physical book myself. I think people who have had this experience of also seeing a book come together, from… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share
