“A WRITER’S ROOM
Danticat’s ‘Claire of the Sea Light’ (Knopf) digs deep into the intertwining lives of the residents of a small town where a young girl goes missing.
I like looking at faces while I work. Not actual faces, but paintings and photographs. I keep a pile of pictures, intriguing faces torn from newspaper or magazine pages, from which I might borrow distinctive features and gestures for my characters.
The paintings and prints around my desk are mostly gifts from friends and sometimes total strangers. I live between Miami’s Design District and Little Haiti neighborhoods, which means there are always amazing things to look at around me.”
(Via NYTimes.com.)