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Work Quotes by Junot Diaz
- 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…
- Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.
- I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces work.
- Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we're always lacking something.
- 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 wring my hands because I know that as a dude, my privilege, my long-term deficiencies work against me in writing women, no matter how…
- In the end, all worlds, whether they're set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fictions. Sure, you don't got to do…
- It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7 A.M., would work…
- 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…
- When I write, what I long for is not more realism or fiction but more courage. That's what I always find myself short on and…
- Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won’t work.
- In the months that follow you bend to the work, because it feels like hope, like grace--and because you know in your lying cheater's heart…
- I sat down next to her. Took her hand. This can work, I said. All we have to do is try.
- So the kind of boy I was, or that I was told to be, you were kind of this like half-gladiator, half-dude who, you know,…
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