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
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
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
Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say,… — 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
There's a long-term tradition of white supremacy in this country. [Donald] Trump isn't something entirely new. But then there is the crisis… — 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
Well, when you look at a lot of science fiction novels they're asking questions about power. There are questions about what it… — Junot Diaz 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
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 Copy Share Image
Instead of lowering your head and copping to it like a man, you pick up the journal as one might hold a… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they're running on medicinal-strength Updike.… — 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
![“There's a long-term tradition of white supremacy in this country. [Donald] Trump isn't something entirely new. But then there is the crisis for white supremacy in this country now where you have people of color standing up for themselves in ways that they've never stood up for themselves or at…” quote by Junot Diaz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/76a/junot-diaz-531_color_there-s-a-long-term-tradition-of-white-s_1384925.jpg)
