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Write Quotes by Junot Diaz
- You must learn her. You must know the reason why she is silent. You must trace her weakest spots. You must write to her. You…
- I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read.
- I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces work.
- It took me sixteen years to write.
- 'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.
- I think there's something really painful about your identity being entirely composed of ghosts. For me, I didn't want to be this kid whose Dominicanness…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write…
- You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You quote Neruda. You cancel your Facebook. You give her the…
- I think 90% of my ideas evaporate because I have a terrible memory and because I seem to be committed to not scribble anything down.…
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