And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I can't imagine anybody who ends up being an artist who didn't pass through a time of geekiness. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I'm one of those apocalyptics. From the start of my immigrant days, I've been fascinated by end-of-the-world stories, by outbreak narratives, and… — 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
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
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
We know story collections end when they end, as well - the pages serving as a countdown - but nevertheless the standard… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
When you're the ones in the life raft and you have four or five women in the life raft who put it… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end - whether we've had direct experience or not - there's part of… — 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
What else she doesn't know: that the man next to her would end up being her husband and the father of her… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
In the end, all worlds, whether they're set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fictions. Sure, you don't… — 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
