People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.

I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.

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?

This was a "bad" example for U.S. slaves. Haiti was subjected to an embargo from the United States, which, along with many other countries, refused to recognize this new republic.

The best moment in writing any book is when you just can't wait to get back to the writing, when you can't wait to re-enter that fictional place, when your fictional town feels even more real than the town where you actually live.

Life's hard in Haiti right now. And the hardest thing is that the future does not lie with one person.

People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it.