I really am a believer that 99.99% of all the stories we need, not only as artists but as human beings, not… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
For kind of sophisticated art I'm interested in, the larger structural rebuke has to be so subtle that it has to be… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I do think that books are invaluable as a reservoir of what we call the human space. And this is why I… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I wrote my first sucio story, as I call them, in 1997. This was always my 'cheater's book,' my book about sucios… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they're running on medicinal-strength Updike.… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I always think about myself as a writer; that comes out of being a reader first, and I don't think I kind… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The thing is - do we really need another writer who writes a book every eighteen months, whether the quality is wonderful… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I write for the people I grew up with. I took extreme pains for my book to not be a native informant.… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“I certainly couldn't have survived my childhood without books. All that deprivation and pain--abuse, broken home, a runaway sister, a brother with… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You quote Neruda. You cancel your Facebook. You… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
'Drown' was always a hybrid book. It's connected stories - partially a story collection but partially a novel. I always wanted the… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
For my first three books the setting (or place if you will) has always been a given - N.J. and the Dominican… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“Called her a whore and attacked her walls, tearing down her posters and throwing her books everywhere. I found out because some… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
I always wanted to read. I always thought I was going to be a historian. I would go to school and study… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
It might interest you that just as the U.S. was ramping up its involvement in Vietnam, LBJ launched an illegal invasion of the Dominican… — Junot Diaz Copy Share
Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love… — Junot Diaz Copy Share
You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it? There are many formulas. One year for every year… — Junot Diaz Copy Share
Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken… — Junot Diaz Copy Share
The one thing about being a dude and writing from a female perspective is that the baseline is, you suck. The baseline is it… — Junot Diaz Copy Share
“I used to think those were the barrio rules, Latinos and blacks in, whites out —a place we down cats weren’t supposed to go.… — Junot Díaz Copy Share
I've always thought that you don't love a country by turning a blind eye to its crimes and to a problem. The way that… — Junot Diaz Copy Share
“Called her a whore and attacked her walls, tearing down her posters and throwing her books everywhere. I found out because some whitegirl ran… — Junot Díaz Copy Share
You're Dominican only if you do this, this, and that. And if you do this and that, you'll be accepted to a certain degree… — Junot Diaz Copy Share
“Ramfis fled the country after Trujillo's death, lived dissolutely off his father's swag, and ended up dying in a car crash of his own… — Junot Díaz Copy Share
If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge. — Junot Diaz Copy Share
“If you ask me I don't think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That's enough.” — Junot Díaz Copy Share
The only difference between a published and unpublished writer is a tolerance for imperfection. — Junot Diaz Copy Share
