Write what haunts you. What keeps you up at night. What you are unable to get out of your mind. Sometimes they are the hardest things to write, but those are often the things that are worth investigating by you specifically. . .

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.

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?

I also know there are timeless waters, endless seas, and lots of people in this world whose names don't matter to anyone but themselves. I look up at the sky and I see you there.

Toni Cade Bambara said: “Writing is the way I participate in the struggle.”

I would hate for people to generalize about every Haitian from something that one Haitian did, or a group of Haitians did.

I'm happy to be part of this chorus of people who are trying to tell more complex stories about Haiti.