I'm having so much trouble with writing. Maybe if I help other people, it'll be easier for me. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The only difference between a published and unpublished writer is a tolerance for imperfection. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I have three storage units, and that's no lie. Three storage units. All books. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get. — 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
Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
When I enter that higher-order space that's required to write, I'm a better human. For whatever my writing is, wherever it's ranked,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“Because that’s the thing about reading / books. For all their vulnerabilities and lack of pull relative to screens, reading / books… — Junot Díaz 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
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
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
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
“You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I always wanted to read. I always thought I was going to be a historian. I would go to school and study… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
As for my slowness as a writer - that's been a struggle, no question. We live in a culture that values and… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“I certainly couldn't have survived my childhood without books. All that deprivation and pain--abuse, broken home, a runaway sister, a brother with… — Junot Díaz 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 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
A young person, or someone who's writing in a different way - in some ways you could say, eventually someone will find… — 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
I think that most of us are aware that as writers we are seeking absences, we're seeking silences, we're seeking spaces that… — 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
“Better minds have said it before, but I don’t mind repeating it less well again and again: Reading, like the natural world,… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
It's extraordinary how many people read a book that's new and weird and befriend it. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I… — 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
“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
When I write, what I long for is not more realism or fiction but more courage. That's what I always find myself… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I think 90% of my ideas evaporate because I have a terrible memory and because I seem to be committed to not… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I read a book a week, man. And I don't have a great memory, but I have a good memory about what… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
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
There is a lot of scepticism today as to whether memoir is real. But when fiction is done at a certain level… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Even I thought I would be a writer who put something out every year. But that's not how it worked out. — 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
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