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Writers Quotes by Junot Diaz
- 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 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…
- What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce…
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