All Junot Diaz Quotes
- I mean in the community that I grew up in, you know, a very, you know, mixed, almost entirely African Diaspora community, one of the… African
- I mean, the nation in which we live - and the world in which we live - is so extraordinarily more like a future than… Extraordinarily
- I really am a believer that 99.99% of all the stories we need, not only as artists but as human beings, not only as writers… All
- I think there's something really painful about your identity being entirely composed of ghosts. For me, I didn't want to be this kid whose Dominicanness… Abstraction
- I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged… Culture
- I was part of that group of kids growing up in the '80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to call 'living in the… 80s
- I wring my hands because I know that as a dude, my privilege, my long-term deficiencies work against me in writing women, no matter how… Deficiencies
- I write for the people I grew up with. I took extreme pains for my book to not be a native informant. Not: 'This is… Book
- I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one of the things… Allow
- 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 always wanted to… Always Wanted
- In fact, looking at the darkest sides of the United States has only made me appreciate the things that we do right, the things that… All
- In minority communities there's a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There's a misunderstanding of what an artist does. Artist
- In the end, all worlds, whether they're set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fictions. Sure, you don't got to do… All
- It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7 A.M., would work… Actually Worked
- John Carter was also one of our first recognizable superhumans and there is little doubt that his extraordinary physical feats inspired Superman's creators. Remember: before… Back Time
- Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read it - some… Angela
- Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don't feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against the monster narrative… Addressing
- My greatest responsibility is to acknowledge the mistakes and the shortcomings of the country in which I live, to acknowledge my privileges, and to try… Acknowledge
- My mother took care of us until my father scrammed, and then she ended up working in the small-factory sector of New Jersey with a… Care
- My novel, which I had started with such hope shortly after publishing my first book of stories, wouldn't budge past the 75-page mark. Nothing I… Any