212 Quotes by Edwidge Danticat

Once you’re involved in the work, it’s really just you and the characters and the words.

Maybe the way death folds into the most private of spaces encourages us to underestimate the shattering weight of such a devastating loss. Perhaps uninterrupted routines and the daily flow of life force us to forget that losing a loved one to death is confounding, excruciating, sometimes even unbearable. That is, until it is our turn to grieve, and no matter how many people surround us, we end up, at one point or another, feeling totally alone.

Sometimes you take detours to get where you need to go.

We’ve had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.

I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when It's at its extreme. And that's what they end up knowing about it.