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One Quotes by Junot Diaz
- Mine (story) ain't the scariest, the clearest, the most painful, or the most beautiful. It just happens to be the one that's got it's fingers…
- 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…
- Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible…
- Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.
- I mean, I'm an artist by nature; no one considers what I do and no one knows who the heck I am, but that anybody…
- I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for connections.
- I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces work.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- My thing is every generation of Americans has to answer what we call the 'Superman Question.' Superman comes, lands in America. He's illegal. He's one…
- One of the many characteristics of the new is that, at first, it's very hard to recognize it for what it is. We're lucky if…
- 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…
- There are a couple of strategies for writing about an absence or writing about a loss. One can create the person that was lost, develop…
- 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…
- Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.
- A first lesson in the fragility of love and the preternatural cowardice of men. And out of this disillusionment and turmoil sprang Beli's first adult…
- Poor Oscar. Without even realizing it he'd fallen into one of those Let's Be Friends Vortexes, the bane of nerdboys everywhere. These relationships were love's…
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare