Madison Smartt Bell
Madison Smartt Bell
Madison Smartt Bellis an American novelist. He is known for his trilogy of novels about Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution, published 1995–2004...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth1 August 1957
CountryUnited States of America
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I have always had a mystical attitude toward inspiration. Thats my nature.
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To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that cant get through the mesh to bite you.
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Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.
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Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.
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Jeremy Popkin's collection of first-person narratives of the Haitian Revolution is an extremely valuable work, accessible, sound and intelligent. I only wish such a book had been available fifteen years ago when I was in the early stages of researching my series of novels. Popkin has been deft and tactful in stitching together these excerpts, and as a result, he manages to tell a complete version of the Revolution almost entirely in the words of the people who experienced it-this book engaged me deeply.
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I dont call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I dont.
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Imaginative writing has always been a solitary and indeed a somewhat antisocial activity. Apprenticeship existed, no doubt, but it was an apprenticeship to books and not to living masters of the craft.