"One of the first things I was told in Haiti is that all families have at least one member in the army, at least one m…"

"Poetry, of course, is special, unique. It is a metamorphosis of language that transforms both reader and poet, an exq…"

"(Who were your models when you began writing?) I was always drawn to novelists. Maupassant remains a master for me an…"

"I like this back and forth between the past and the present, between memory and reality."

"Contact with books pushed me toward writing. In books I found a special space of the imagination, and I wanted to cre…"

"This image of the condemned books remains for me one of the strongest images of the repression, this repression of kn…"

"I feed off of my observations, above all. Sometimes it just takes a remark for an idea for a story or a character to …"

"I think that we often tend not to face the pages of our history that upset us. I would have thought that there would …"

"I am more and more convinced that the future of Haitian literature rests in a broadened set of topics. It cannot deal…"

"We Haitian citizens know the damages already caused by foreign forces in the country. Many questions need to be asked…"