Stories Quotes by Edwidge Danticat

“Medicare rewards doctors far better for doing procedures than for assessing whether they should be done at all.”

— Edwidge Danticat

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

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

“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

“Then what do you want with me?'... 'The pursuit of happiness.”

— Edwidge Danticat

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

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

“Nineteen Thirty-Seven”

— Edwidge Danticat

“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

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

“I owe Oprah and that show a tremendous debt.”

— Edwidge Danticat

The greatest gift anyone can give to a writer is time.

— Edwidge Danticat

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

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

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