“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
“Because that’s the thing about reading / books. For all their vulnerabilities and lack of pull relative to screens, reading / books… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
In '94, I started writing a novel about an enormous terrorist act that destroyed the United States. The novel takes place twenty… — 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 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's extraordinary how many people read a book that's new and weird and befriend it. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You drive her to work. You quote Neruda.… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
“We’re committed to the idea that a book has to live in the present . . . but the reality, that’s hard for us to recognise,… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
A form wherein we can enjoy simultaneously what is best in both the novel and the short story form. My plan was… — Junot Diaz 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
Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I have three storage units, and that's no lie. Three storage units. All books. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“Better minds have said it before, but I don’t mind repeating it less well again and again: Reading, like the natural world,… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards. — 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
Books are surviving in this intense, fragmented, hyper-accelerated present, and my sense and hope is that things will slow down again and… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I love 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' That was like the only black book we read in high school. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Of course we all know that's not how life works. The novel that is our life can end at any time. Sometimes… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
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
Usually at the end of each story we're thrown clear out of the story's world and then we're given a new world… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
In my mind what novels do best is that they immerse us deeply into our character's world - they truly transport us… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
