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

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

Whole interaction between the storyteller and the listeners had a very powerful influence on me.

I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis.

I can't wait for both my daughters to be old enough to read all my books. I loved it every time I saw my parents acting like more than just my parents. And I'm looking forward to that with my daughters too. I am looking forward to having them discover me as someone completely other than their mother.

You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice.

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.