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Book Quotes by Junot Diaz
- 'Drown' was always a hybrid book. It's connected stories - partially a story collection but partially a novel. I always wanted the reader to decide…
- For my first three books the setting (or place if you will) has always been a given - N.J. and the Dominican Republic and some…
- Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards.
- I have three storage units, and that's no lie. Three storage units. All books.
- I love 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' That was like the only black book we read in high school.
- We hide so well. This is the bottom line: how hidden is male subjectivity? Name five books where male subjectivity is produced in an honest…
- 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…
- 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…
- When I was working on 'Drown' - this was way back in the mid-'90s - I had this idea that I wanted to do another…
- You know, I was a kid who had difficulty speaking English when I first immigrated. But in my head, when I read a book, I…
- We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves. If…
- In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write…
- Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over.
- You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You quote Neruda. You cancel your Facebook. You give her the…
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