Junot Diaz

A person doesn't mourn forever.

— Junot Diaz

Anger has a way of returning.

— Junot Diaz

“The beauty! The beauty!”

— Junot Diaz

I'm just this Dominican kid from New Jersey.

— Junot Diaz

The half-life of love is forever.

— Junot Díaz

“Entonces cállate la fucking boca.”

— Junot Díaz

You can't regret the life you didn't lead.

— Junot Diaz

“Los que menos corren, vuelan”

— Junot Diaz

“Read more than you write, live more than you read”

— Junot Díaz

Nothing more exhilarating ... than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.

— Junot Diaz

Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often.

— Junot Diaz

“I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.”

— Junot Díaz

“In love! She wafted through her day like a woman with a concussion.”

— Junot Díaz

“Nothing more exhilarating (he wrote) than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.”

— Junot Díaz

“Happiness, when it comes, is stronger than all the jerk girls in Santo Domingo combined.”

— Junot Díaz

“I seem to be allergic to diligence, and Lola said, Ha. What you're allergic to is trying.”

— Junot Díaz

I mean, I'm an artist by nature; no one considers what I do and no one knows who the heck I am,…

— Junot Diaz

- Nothing else has any efficacy, I might as well be myself. - But your yourself sucks! - It is, lamentably, all…

— Junot Diaz

Art is not boosterism, it's not propaganda, and it's not spin, but that's not something that art does, and nor has it…

— Junot Diaz

“I’ll give you what I’ve managed to unearth and the rest will have to wait for the day the páginas en blanco…

— Junot Diaz

Run a hand through your hair, like the white boys do, even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair…

— Junot Diaz

We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things,…

— Junot Diaz

There is a lot of scepticism today as to whether memoir is real. But when fiction is done at a certain level…

— Junot Diaz

But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out…

— Junot Diaz

I was part of that group of kids growing up in the '80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to call…

— Junot Diaz

“In a better world I would have kissed her over the ice trays and that would have been the end of all…

— Junot Díaz

When people are always telling you that you have to have a lot of women, women are very important, there's a chance…

— Junot Diaz

John Carter was also one of our first recognizable superhumans and there is little doubt that his extraordinary physical feats inspired Superman's…

— Junot Diaz

You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture. That's what…

— Junot Diaz

“Before there was an American Story, before Paterson spread before Oscar and Lola like a dream, or the trumpets from the Island…

— Junot Diaz

I'm still trying to figure out how to write about cancer and my family's experience with it. If I had been able…

— Junot Diaz

“The next day he woke up feeling like he'd been unshackled from his fat, like he'd been washed clean from his misery,…

— Junot Díaz

When I was thinking about these women characters, no matter how bad a person I am - a bad writer, my limitations,…

— Junot Diaz

“There were a lot of these middle-aged single types in the neighborhood, shipwrecked by every kind of catastrophe, but she was one…

— Junot Díaz

“In the nine years since [Robert] Harris’s novel [Conclave] was published our culture has, if anything, become more enamored with certainty, not…

— Junot Díaz

“A month later the law student leaves you for one of her classmates, tells you that it was great but she has…

— Junot Díaz

“on the plane he had been confident. He'd talked to the vieja near the aisle, telling her how excited he was. It…

— Junot Díaz

“You guys know about vampires? … You know, vampires have no reflections in a mirror? There’s this idea that monsters don’t have…

— Junot Díaz

“Those last months. No way of wrapping it pretty or pretending otherwise: Rafa was dying. By then it was only me and…

— Junot Díaz

“Responding to a moderator at the Sydney Writers Festival in 2008 (video), about the Spanish words in his book: When all of…

— Junot Diaz