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Stories 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…
- '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…
- I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them.
- I know for a fact that - it's just the way our biases work now in the industry of literature, but certainly a short story…
- 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'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…
- 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…
- Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they're running on medicinal-strength Updike. But for me…
- When I was working on 'Drown' - this was way back in the mid-'90s - I had this idea that I wanted to do another…
- 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…
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- Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
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- As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison,… — Julian Assange
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe