I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I'm just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
It's interesting to see people overcome things. Because if you didn't overcome, you wouldn't be writing it. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Whole interaction between the storyteller and the listeners had a very powerful influence on me. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Toni Cade Bambara said: “Writing is the way I participate in the struggle.” — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
After writing fiction for so long, I like the discovery element of nonfiction, in the sense that when you find the right… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I was able to not fold and go in a corner because I had my writing as therapy, but also as my… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday,… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Sometimes family members will ask to be kept out of certain things that I'm writing, and I try to respect that. I'd… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“There's no such thing as simple mourning for anyone, really, except that as writers our grief becomes woven into the fabric of… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
It's hard to tell what people will do with the word and how they'll be circulating it but I think the storytellers… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus, like the poet Osip Mandelstam, suggests that… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
After the Dance was my first attempt at nonfiction. I'd never really participated in carnival, and I really wanted to go. It… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Sometimes we mask ourselves to further reveal ourselves, and it's always been connected to me with being a writer: We tell lies… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Write what haunts you. What keeps you up at night. What you are unable to get out of your mind. Sometimes they… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I very much love a physical book myself. I think people who have had this experience of also seeing a book come… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
There is this split between the Haiti of before the earthquake and the Haiti of after the earthquake. So when I'm writing… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
My models were oral, were storytellers. Like my grandmothers and my aunts. It's true, a lot of people in my life were… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Often when you're an immigrant writing in English, people think it's primarily a commercial choice. But for many of us, it's a… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
We all have a tendency to over generalize our individual experiences. After I've published something, I'll meet someone who says, "I'm Haitian,… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
It's not a matter of whether the reviews of your books are good or bad, it's about being taken seriously, both as… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
When you write, it’s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I remember reading an interview with a writer who said that in nonfiction if you have one lie it sort of messes… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair… — 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
