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Junot Diaz Quotes

Ybon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what? Maybe, she said, you could call it life Picture Quote #1

I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent Picture Quote #1

I feel most like myself... after I run - I go out for five miles every morning Picture Quote #1

The Prisoner’s Wife echoes Edwidge Danticat’s Farming of the Bones in the urgency in which it reminds us of the possibility of love even amidst the ruins. This is a terrifying, heart-breaking and, ultimately, important book Picture Quote #1

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 you love a country is by seeing everything that it’s done wrong, all of its mistakes, and still thinking that it’s beautiful and that it’s worthy Picture Quote #1

The thing is, you try your best, and what else you got? You try your best, really, that’s all you can do. And for me, my best happens really so rarely Picture Quote #1

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You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway Picture Quote #1

...one of those very bad men that not even postmodernism can explain away Picture Quote #1

[The biggest disappointment is] that he [Barack Obama] deported everybody and their grandmother Picture Quote #1

When I enter that higher-order space that’s required to write, I’m a better human. For whatever my writing is, wherever it’s ranked, it definitely is the one place that I get to be beautiful Picture Quote #1

If you, like, consciously think about being cool, you’re not cool. If you consciously think about being, like, different or original, you ain’t different or original Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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I wrote my first sucio story, as I call them, in 1997. This was always my ‘cheater’s book,’ my book about sucios desgraciados. My plan was to write a book about how people deal with love and loss Picture Quote #1

Drown’ was always a hybrid book. It’s connected stories - partially a story collection but partially a novel. I always wanted the reader to decide which genre they thought the book belonged to more - story, novel, neither, both Picture Quote #1

For me it’s a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and honouring and making for a brief moment short fiction the centre of the literary universe Picture Quote #1

When I think about my own relationships to the women that I really loved, it feels like that love, even after we’ve broken up and we’re no longer speaking, that love never goes away. No one told me that Picture Quote #1

I’m still trying to figure out how to write about cancer and my family’s experience with it. If I had been able to write ‘The Pura Principle’ back in those days, I’m positive it would have had no humor in it. Which means the story would have been false Picture Quote #1

[Donald] Trump is taking America’s dirty laundry to the center stage. Everything he does, the rest of the country already does really well: victimize immigrants, poor people, women Picture Quote #1

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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 and if you don’t, people will scorn you for it Picture Quote #1

I think that if you’re writing about the human condition, my God, you’ve got to start at base: point zero, point one, is the body Picture Quote #1

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 what I have to struggle to achieve in order that the work might live Picture Quote #1

Stereotypes, they’re sensual, cultural weapons. That’s the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing Picture Quote #1

It took me 11 years to struggle through one dumb book, and every day you just want to give up. But you don’t find out you’re an artist because you do something really well Picture Quote #1

For my first three books the setting (or place if you will) has always been a given - N.J. and the Dominican Republic and some N.Y.C. - so from one perspective you could say that the place in my work always comes first Picture Quote #1

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People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong Picture Quote #1

It’s extraordinary how many people read a book that’s new and weird and befriend it Picture Quote #1

Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don’t feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against the monster narrative of your family Picture Quote #1

You think people hate a fat person? Try a fat person who’s trying to get thin Picture Quote #1

Sure, I liked girls but I was always too terrified to speak to them unless we were arguing or I was calling them stupidos, which was one of my favorite words that year Picture Quote #1

I find infidelity interesting because it’s so revelatory about people. It’s this really silent thing. Everyone acknowledges it as a general practice, but nobody likes to go beyond that, to get down to the nitty-gritty Picture Quote #1

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Ybon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what? Maybe, she said, you could call it life (Junot Diaz Quotes) I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent (Junot Diaz Quotes) I feel most like myself... after I run - I go out for five miles every morning (Junot Diaz Quotes) The Prisoner’s Wife echoes Edwidge Danticat’s Farming of the Bones in the urgency in which it reminds us of the possibility of love even amidst the ruins. This is a terrifying, heart-breaking and, ultimately, important book (Junot Diaz Quotes) 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 you love a country is by seeing everything that it’s done wrong, all of its mistakes, and still thinking that it’s beautiful and that it’s worthy (Junot Diaz Quotes) The thing is, you try your best, and what else you got? You try your best, really, that’s all you can do. And for me, my best happens really so rarely. (Junot Diaz Quotes) You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway. (Junot Diaz Quotes) ...one of those very bad men that not even postmodernism can explain away. (Junot Diaz Quotes) [The biggest disappointment is] that he [Barack Obama] deported everybody and their grandmother (Junot Diaz Quotes) When I enter that higher-order space that’s required to write, I’m a better human. For whatever my writing is, wherever it’s ranked, it definitely is the one place that I get to be beautiful. (Junot Diaz Quotes) If you, like, consciously think about being cool, you’re not cool. If you consciously think about being, like, different or original, you ain’t different or original. (Junot Diaz Quotes) 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 Quotes) I wrote my first sucio story, as I call them, in 1997. This was always my ‘cheater’s book,’ my book about sucios desgraciados. My plan was to write a book about how people deal with love and loss. (Junot Diaz Quotes) Drown’ was always a hybrid book. It’s connected stories - partially a story collection but partially a novel. I always wanted the reader to decide which genre they thought the book belonged to more - story, novel, neither, both. (Junot Diaz Quotes) For me it’s a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and honouring and making for a brief moment short fiction the centre of the literary universe. (Junot Diaz Quotes) When I think about my own relationships to the women that I really loved, it feels like that love, even after we’ve broken up and we’re no longer speaking, that love never goes away. No one told me that. (Junot Diaz Quotes) I’m still trying to figure out how to write about cancer and my family’s experience with it. If I had been able to write ‘The Pura Principle’ back in those days, I’m positive it would have had no humor in it. Which means the story would have been false. (Junot Diaz Quotes) [Donald] Trump is taking America’s dirty laundry to the center stage. Everything he does, the rest of the country already does really well: victimize immigrants, poor people, women. (Junot Diaz Quotes) 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 and if you don’t, people will scorn you for it. (Junot Diaz Quotes) I think that if you’re writing about the human condition, my God, you’ve got to start at base: point zero, point one, is the body. (Junot Diaz Quotes) 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 what I have to struggle to achieve in order that the work might live. (Junot Diaz Quotes) Stereotypes, they’re sensual, cultural weapons. That’s the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing. (Junot Diaz Quotes) It took me 11 years to struggle through one dumb book, and every day you just want to give up. But you don’t find out you’re an artist because you do something really well. (Junot Diaz Quotes) For my first three books the setting (or place if you will) has always been a given - N.J. and the Dominican Republic and some N.Y.C. - so from one perspective you could say that the place in my work always comes first. (Junot Diaz Quotes) People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong. (Junot Diaz Quotes) It’s extraordinary how many people read a book that’s new and weird and befriend it (Junot Diaz Quotes) Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don’t feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against the monster narrative of your family. (Junot Diaz Quotes) You think people hate a fat person? Try a fat person who’s trying to get thin. (Junot Diaz Quotes) Sure, I liked girls but I was always too terrified to speak to them unless we were arguing or I was calling them stupidos, which was one of my favorite words that year. (Junot Diaz Quotes) I find infidelity interesting because it’s so revelatory about people. It’s this really silent thing. Everyone acknowledges it as a general practice, but nobody likes to go beyond that, to get down to the nitty-gritty. (Junot Diaz Quotes)

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