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I Think It's Hard To Write A Book About Happiness Because Fiction Requires Tension And Complication.

It Is The Calm And Silent Waters That Drown You.

I Think All Artists Are Looking For A Subject Or Are Sometimes Unsure Of Their Subject, But Immigrant Artists Bring Another Culture To That And They Bring Also The Place Where The Original Culture Meets The New Culture.

I Very Much Love A Physical Book Myself. I Think People Who Have Had This Experience Of Also Seeing A Book Come Together, From Sitting Down And Writing The First Word, To Holding The Binding In Your Hand, We Have A Deeper Sentimental Attachment To It Than Others Might.

Language Is Such A Powerful Thing. After The Earthquake, I Went To Haiti And People Were Talking About How [they] Described This Feeling Of Going Through An Earthquake. People Really Didn't Have The Vocabulary - Before We Had Hurricanes. I'd Talk With People And They'd Say, "we Have To Name It; It Has To Have A Name."