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- I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read.
- Even if you didn't come from another country, the idea of how do you make a home somewhere new is common to anyone who's either…
- 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…
- I can always tell if someone's from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard.
- I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.
- I'm just this Dominican kid from New Jersey.
- When I became my masked identity I was this incredible little nerd, but in the real world I had to be this tough kid from…
- I think the average guy thinks they're pro-woman, just because they think they're a nice guy and someone has told them that they're awesome. But…
- 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…
- The one thing about being a dude and writing from a female perspective is that the baseline is, you suck. The baseline is it takes…
- On the outside, Oscar simply looked tired, no taller, no fatter, only the skin under his eyes, pouched from years of quiet desperation, had changed.…
- You eventually erase her contact info from your phone but not the pictures you took of her in bed while she was naked and asleep,…
- Once someone gets a little escape velocity going, ain't no play in the world that will keep them from leaving.
- I just want some space to myself every now and then. Every time I’m with you I have this sense that you want something from…
- I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.
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