Sixteen Quote by Junot Diaz Download Open image “It took me sixteen years to write.” — Junot Diaz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Sixteen Writing Years
I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York!… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years. — Matthew Tobin Anderson 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 didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
When I was a child at sixteen, I was just a child. All sixteen year-olds are just children. As much as we like them… — Frank Abagnale Copy Share Image
I got signed with the songwriting deal when I was sixteen and they were really great - my publishers, who to this day are… — Lights Copy Share Image
Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can… — Annie Ernaux Copy Share Image
Got in the studio at sixteen, [and] that's when I felt like I wanted to make this a career. I had a passion for… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
I was fifteen, or sixteen. I was in high school. I was spending a summer in California with my second cousins. And I wanted… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Dan," she said. "I'm worried about him. It's not right that a thirteen-year-old knows as much as he does bout stealing things." " You're… — Roland Smith Copy Share Image
Positive Thinkers get positive results because they appreciate the inestimable value of a day, this day, not the next day, but this day, and… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
My first real acting job was 'Skins' at eighteen years old, and I just kind of grew into myself in those two years; I… — Luke Pasqualino Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was about fourteen, but when I was about sixteen you know, I heard Outkast, that was pretty much when… — Bubba Sparxxx Copy Share Image
If you look at 'Blade Runner,' it's been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it. — George Lucas Copy Share Image
How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks security guard] Is seventeen legal? — Alice Cooper Copy Share Image
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