I've come to see that I'm saying something that people generally do not want to hear.

I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through.

I come from the small island of Antigua and I always wanted to write; I just didn't know that it was possible.

Sometimes when someone says something stupid, my friends and I just read the reviews out loud and collapse with laughter at the stupidity of it all.

I'm always telling my students go to law school or become a doctor, do something, and then write. First of all you should have something to write about, and you only have something to write about if you do something.

My writing has always been met with derision or dismissal.

I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.