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The more practice you have, the less stressful writing is.

Edwidge Danticat

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Edwidge Danticat
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 19
Author
Novelist
Writer
Port au Prince
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Less
Writing
Stressful

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My models were oral, were storytellers. Like my grandmothers and my aunts. It's true, a lot of people in my life were not literate in a formal sense, but they were storytellers. So I had this experience of just watching somebody spin a tale off the top of her head. I loved that.
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All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.
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Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of how much of this is your life. The story is a way you unravel your life from behind a mask.
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In the 1980s, when people were just beginning to talk about AIDS, there were just a few categories of those who were at high risk: homosexuals, hemophiliacs, heroin addicts, and Haitians. We were the only ones identified by nationality.
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It's interesting to see people overcome things. Because if you didn't overcome, you wouldn't be writing it.
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The way the media cycle works, the way the news works, and the way people's attention span works, is that we only learn that people exist when there is crisis.
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If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.
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We try to keep the beautiful memories, but other things from the past creep up on us.
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That has always been a strength of Haiti: Beyond crisis, it has beautiful art it has beautiful music. But people have not heard about those as much as they heard about the coups and so forth. I always hope that the people who read me will want to learn more about Haiti.
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I'm just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing.
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I don't know what will happen to the physical book and what it will mean for authors. I worry whether it will mean people can still make their careers this way. Will whatever comes next allow people to be able to own their ideas and be able to take time to develop them?
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When you are working on something, you have to believe that people will still be reading when you're done!
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It is the calm and silent waters that drown you.
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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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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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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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...women, brave as stars at dawn
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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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We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.
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No one will love you more than you love your pain.
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