Novel Quotes by Junot Diaz

'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.

— Junot Diaz

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

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

I know for a fact that - it's just the way our biases work now in the industry of literature, but certainly…

— Junot Diaz

'Drown' was always a hybrid book. It's connected stories - partially a story collection but partially a novel. I always wanted the…

— Junot Diaz

Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say,…

— Junot Diaz

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

In '94, I started writing a novel about an enormous terrorist act that destroyed the United States. The novel takes place twenty…

— Junot Diaz

Instead of lowering your head and copping to it like a man, you pick up the journal as one might hold a…

— Junot Diaz

In my mind what novels do best is that they immerse us deeply into our character's world - they truly transport us…

— Junot Diaz

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

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

A form wherein we can enjoy simultaneously what is best in both the novel and the short story form. My plan was…

— Junot Diaz

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

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