Befriend Quote by Junot Diaz Download Open image “It's extraordinary how many people read a book that's new and weird and befriend it.” — Junot Diaz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Befriend Book Books Extraordinary How Many New People Read Read A Book Weird
Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to… — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Wonderful thing about novels is that sometimes we read a novel and we know the person in the novel more than we know people… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors. — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
Oddly, for a book to do well merely because people like it is surprisingly rare. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
“Why do you think I'm reading this? But you know—though maybe you have different standards for what constitutes 'interesting' than I do—there's no such… — Natsuhiko Kyogoku Copy Share Image
I live for books that produce a mood of gathering creepy fascination, a true descent in the Weird. — Gemma Files Copy Share Image
It might interest you that just as the U.S. was ramping up its involvement in Vietnam, LBJ launched an illegal invasion of the Dominican… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it? There are many formulas. One year for every year… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The one thing about being a dude and writing from a female perspective is that the baseline is, you suck. The baseline is it… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“I used to think those were the barrio rules, Latinos and blacks in, whites out —a place we down cats weren’t supposed to go.… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
I've always thought that you don't love a country by turning a blind eye to its crimes and to a problem. The way that… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“Called her a whore and attacked her walls, tearing down her posters and throwing her books everywhere. I found out because some whitegirl ran… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
You're Dominican only if you do this, this, and that. And if you do this and that, you'll be accepted to a certain degree… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“Ramfis fled the country after Trujillo's death, lived dissolutely off his father's swag, and ended up dying in a car crash of his own… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
“If you stay passionate and committed, mediocrity will never be eager to befriend you.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Plantations of good morals are easily captivated, colonized and corrupted by the pests of a bad company. Spray away bad companies and you will… — israelmore ayivor Copy Share Image
“The vacancy in your heart doesn't connotes that nobody is seeking for the job of servicing your feelings, but because the employee must first… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't… — John Hughes Copy Share Image
“The attitude you pose is greatly influenced by the links of friendships you bookmark. Good friends, good attitudes; best friends, best attitudes. Guess what… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Role models can inspire. Campaigns can motivate. But if we want all girls everywhere to rise up, then we must find them, befriend them… — Queen Rania of Jordan Copy Share Image
When you sign up for Facebook, the service first searches for any mentions of your name and suggests you befriend anyone who has mentioned… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
“Even if you love a lady, don't say you will take care of her while someone else is catering for your needs.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The message of Jesus is summed up partly in the Sermon on the Mount, and partly when he begins his ministry and quotes the… — Dan Wakefield Copy Share Image
The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor's shoulder is to pat him on the back — Anonymous Copy Share Image
