Let me tell you, if I could write one-tenth as fast as some of my friends, I'd be made. I'd be it.… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one… — Junot Diaz 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
[Immigrating] didn't burn out my desire to travel, though that can happen. There's nothing like immigration to make you want to just… — 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
“You go to more doctors. You celebrate Arlenny's Ph.D. defense. And then one June night you scribble the ex's name and: The… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
We get these lives for free. I didn't do anything to get this life, and no matter what the hardships are, it… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
In another universe I probably came out OK, ended up with mad novias and jobs and a sea of love in which… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“The first law of everything is that the world don’t usually give a fuck about our problems — we are our own… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
I think what happened to me was that I was always being taught to look, but one day I started to see.… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Honestly, connecting once at the deepest level with someone, you know, once you've done that, even if your life goes to hell,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I don't think I could have tackled 'The Pura Principle' until now. It takes me about twenty years to come to term… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I was really drawn to thinking about the women in my life. Thinking about my mother, who's a very powerful force on… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life. — 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
That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“You don't know what it's like to grow up with a mother who never said a positive thing in her life, not… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
Ybon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what? Maybe, she said, you could call it life. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“In a better world I would have kissed her over the ice trays and that would have been the end of all… — Junot Díaz 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
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