It Is The Calm And Silent Waters

The Best Moment In Writing Any Book Is When You Just Can't Wait To Get Back To The Writing, When You Can't Wait To Re-enter That Fictional Place, When Your Fictional Town Feels Even More Real Than The Town Where You Actually Live.

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.

Or Even The State Of Florida, Where They Are Prepared To Execute Children. Umm, Well, You Hope That At Least That There Is Something There To Be Claimed.

We All Have A Tendency To Over Generalize Our Individual Experiences. After I've Published Something, I'll Meet Someone Who Says, "i'm Haitian, And I Don't Know This, So It Must Not Be True." Even If We're Talking About A Work Of Fiction. I've Gotten Very Angry Myself Reading Many Things About Haiti. We're Not A Monolithic Group; No Group Is. Also, It's Important To Keep In Mind The Genre In Which We Are Writing. Fiction Is Full Of Invented Stories About Exceptional People In Exceptional Situations. Those Situations Are Not Always Cheery Or Celebratory.

They Say Behind Mountains Are More Mountains.