Character Is The Plot In Many Ways

Being An Author Is Always Like Being A Well-run Dictatorship - It's All One Person Speaking.

And That's When I Know It's Over. As Soon As You Start Thinking About The Beginning, It's The End.

I Write For The People I Grew Up With. I Took Extreme Pains For My Book To Not Be A Native Informant. Not: 'this Is Dominican Food. This Is A Spanish Word.' I Trust My Readers, Even Non-spanish Ones.

I Feel Most Like Myself... After I Run - I Go Out For Five Miles Every Morning.

Katrina Was One Of Those Things That Rips The Clothes Off Of The Guy Who Keeps Saying He's A Saint, And Underneath You See That He's A Monster.