Books Quote by Junot Díaz

“Being a good writer meant he could make a living and do as he chose. Being a great one would bring responsibilities and expectations…

— Nora Roberts

“It is the importance of this quality of generosity in fiction that requires a measure of childishness in the writer. People who have strong…

— John Gardner

“In his earliest youth, he had drawn inspiration from really bad authors, as you may have seen from his style; as he grew older,…

— Gustave Flaubert

“He began to view writing as a petty ambition, a frivolous and indulgent whim, creativity itself as the pathology of the very young or…

— Galt Niederhoffer

“He read with intensity and was passionately in love with every character, every turn of plot or twist of language. He made the characters…

— Sarah Ockler

“They loved him, or loved the thought of him, what they thought he was: a man who could easily have had a good life…

— Donal Ryan

“his education had had the curious effect of making things that he read and wrote more real to him than things he saw.”

— C.S. Lewis

“it is easy to see how Stanley’s painful poorhouse childhood may have fostered his cruel streak and the drive to place his mark on…

— Adam Hochschild

“In order to succeed he must remain true to the feeling that had inspired him in the first place. It didn't matter that other…

— Rachel Joyce

“To the young among his admirers, he was the fresh face of an emerging, better world; to the old, a balm for the pain…

— Stuart Isacoff

“From childhood he had been devoted to whatever was useless, metamorphosing the streetcar rattle of life into events of consequence, and when he began…

— Osip Mandelstam

“he was sure that she, with a little more time and a little more wisdom, would come to accept that the novels he liked…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie