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Reader 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…
- 'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
More Reader Quotes
- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present… — Samuel Johnson
- I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,'… — Margaret Atwood
- One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered… — Beverly Cleary
- All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick… — Steve Almond
- A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents. — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Sometimes language gets in the way of the story's feelings. The reader finds himself experiencing the language of the story rather than… — Leonard Michaels
- As a reader I feel included a lot in Julie Carr’s hard and beautiful book. I can pretty much hear its author… — Eileen Myles
- Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want… — J. Michael Straczynski