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?

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.

It is the calm and silent waters that drown you.

To be able to create you have to have peace of mind on some level.

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. . .

In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States.

When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.