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When you are working on something, you have to believe that people will still be reading when you're done!
Edwidge Danticat
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Edwidge Danticat
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 19
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Vodou is one of the religions practiced in Haiti, a rich religion for the people.
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I'm just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing.
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I am very timid about speaking for the collective. I can say what I see, I can say what I've heard, I can say what I feel, but I can't speak for - no one can speak for - 10 million people, and it takes away something from them if you make yourself their voice.
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Pretend that this is a time of miracles and we believe in them.
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There is something human about the way people react to and identify with suffering. There's a lot more empathy in the world than we perhaps realize.
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Wonderful thing about novels is that sometimes we read a novel and we know the person in the novel more than we know people in our own lives.
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I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like a hair on your head. Where women return to their children as butterflies or as tears in the eyes of the statues that their daughters pray to
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No one will love you more than you love your pain.
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I very much love a physical book myself. I think people who have had this experience of also seeing a book come together, from sitting down and writing the first word, to holding the binding in your hand, we have a deeper sentimental attachment to it than others might.
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People often think of Haiti as a place where you're not supposed to have any joy. I wanted to show that this is a place with joy.
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There [Haiti] were also leaders like Jean-Jacques Dessalines, whose motto was, Cut their heads off, burn their houses.
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People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to Haiti.
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We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.
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We live now in a global culture where anything that happens in a place that's 90 minutes from your shores really affects you.
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To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.
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