We hide so well. This is the bottom line: how hidden is male subjectivity? Name five books where male subjectivity is produced… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence… — 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
It took me 11 years to struggle through one dumb book, and every day you just want to give up. But 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
My novel, which I had started with such hope shortly after publishing my first book of stories, wouldn't budge past the 75-page… — 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 flip through the book, one of his top three, without question, to the last horrifying chapter: ‘A Stronger Loving World'. To… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
“Responding to a moderator at the Sydney Writers Festival in 2008 (video), about the Spanish words in his book: When all of… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I think that most of my writer friends are really compulsive. I think that's great. It's wonderful for them. It's just not… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“Baby, you say, baby this is part of my novel. This is how you lose her.” — Junot Díaz 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
“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
I know for a fact that - it's just the way our biases work now in the industry of literature, but certainly… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Literature is less involved in giving you answers and more dedicated to giving you insight. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
If you really want a prize, or if you really want applause, you should try to write as many books as humanly… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“What is clear is that being a reader/fanboy (for lack of a better term) helped him get through the rough days of… — Junot Díaz 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
“Magda was reading a book by a Trappist, in a better mood, and I was sitting on the edge of the bed,… — Junot Díaz 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
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
Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to… — 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
