Someone Has Said That Nations Have Interests,

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.

When You Are Working On Something, You Have To Believe That People Will Still Be Reading When You're Done!

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."

After The Dance Was My First Attempt At Nonfiction. I'd Never Really Participated In Carnival, And I Really Wanted To Go. It Sounded Like A Wonderfully Fun Thing To Do. And I Wanted To Write Something Happy About Haiti, Something Celebratory. And Going To Carnival Gave Me A Chance To Do That, Because It Is One Of The Instances In Haiti When People Shed Their Class Separation And Come Together.

You Have All These People In The City And Everything Has Become Centralized. If You Live Outside The City And You Need A Birth Certificate Or Some Official Paper From The Government, You Have To Travel To The City.