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Way Quotes by Junot Diaz
- Because I can't seem to escape it. It's a way for me to address and counter my questions about what it means to be human,…
- Character is the plot in many ways
- A young person, or someone who's writing in a different way - in some ways you could say, eventually someone will find them. Eventually someone…
- Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible…
- I seem to have to make my characters family before I can access their hearts in any way that matters.
- I sleep way too much and I read tremendously.
- Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing.
- 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…
- We get these lives for free. I didn't do anything to get this life, and no matter what the hardships are, it is free and,…
- Art has a way of confronting us, of reminding us, of engaging us, in what it means to be human, and what it means to…
- 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…
- My thing is, I'm just way too harsh. It's an enormous impediment, and that's just the truth of it. It doesn't make me any better,…
- New Jersey is to New York what Santo Domingo is to the United States. I always felt that those two landscapes, not only just the…
- The Caribbean is such an apocalyptic place, whether it's the decimation of the indigenous populations by the Europeans, whether it's the importation of slaves and…
- 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…
- 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…
- The only way out is in.
- But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.
- 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.…
- She's sensitive, too. Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper.
- Anger has a way of returning.
- ...and when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart thundered inside his chest, a lonely…
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