|

|

Advertisements

Junot Diaz Quotes

Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That’s the nature of genre Picture Quote #1

I am a person who dreads any kind of public exposure and any kind of public event. I spend all day, if I have to do a reading, preparing Picture Quote #1

I didn’t start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that Picture Quote #1

I have three storage units, and that’s no lie. Three storage units. All books Picture Quote #1

I seem to have to make my characters family before I can access their hearts in any way that matters Picture Quote #1

I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for connections Picture Quote #1

Advertisements

I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get Picture Quote #1

I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces work Picture Quote #1

Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we’re always lacking something 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

We hide so well. This is the bottom line: how hidden is male subjectivity? Name five books where male subjectivity is produced in an honest way Picture Quote #1

When I became my masked identity I was this incredible little nerd, but in the real world I had to be this tough kid from the neighborhood Picture Quote #1

Advertisements

We get these lives for free. I didn’t do anything to get this life, and no matter what the hardships are, it is free and, in a way, it’s an extraordinary bargain Picture Quote #1

Artists are not cheerleaders, and we’re not the heads of tourism boards. We expose and discuss what is problematic, what is contradictory, what is hurtful and what is silenced in the culture we’re in Picture Quote #1

Even if you didn’t come from another country, the idea of how do you make a home somewhere new is common to anyone who’s either going to college, shifting towns 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

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

My greatest responsibility is to acknowledge the mistakes and the shortcomings of the country in which I live, to acknowledge my privileges, and to try to make it a better place Picture Quote #1

Advertisements

My thing is, I’m just way too harsh. It’s an enormous impediment, and that’s just the truth of it. It doesn’t make me any better, make me any worse, it certainly isn’t more valorous. I have a character defect, man Picture Quote #1

There is a lot of scepticism today as to whether memoir is real. But when fiction is done at a certain level there is scepticism as to whether it is really fiction 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

She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all Picture Quote #1

It’s exactly at these moments, when all hope has vanished, that prayer has dominion Picture Quote #1

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

Advertisements

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book Picture Quote #1

That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough Picture Quote #1

Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him 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

What else she doesn’t know: that the man next to her would end up being her husband and the father of her two children, that after two years together he would leave her, her third and final heartbreak, and she would never love again Picture Quote #1

And that’s when I know it’s over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it’s the end Picture Quote #1

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Advertisements

Text Quotes

Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That’s the nature of genre (Junot Diaz Quotes) I am a person who dreads any kind of public exposure and any kind of public event. I spend all day, if I have to do a reading, preparing (Junot Diaz Quotes) I didn’t start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that (Junot Diaz Quotes) I have three storage units, and that’s no lie. Three storage units. All books (Junot Diaz Quotes) I seem to have to make my characters family before I can access their hearts in any way that matters (Junot Diaz Quotes) I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for connections (Junot Diaz Quotes) I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get (Junot Diaz Quotes) I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces work (Junot Diaz Quotes) Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we’re always lacking something (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) We hide so well. This is the bottom line: how hidden is male subjectivity? Name five books where male subjectivity is produced in an honest way (Junot Diaz Quotes) When I became my masked identity I was this incredible little nerd, but in the real world I had to be this tough kid from the neighborhood (Junot Diaz Quotes) We get these lives for free. I didn’t do anything to get this life, and no matter what the hardships are, it is free and, in a way, it’s an extraordinary bargain (Junot Diaz Quotes) Artists are not cheerleaders, and we’re not the heads of tourism boards. We expose and discuss what is problematic, what is contradictory, what is hurtful and what is silenced in the culture we’re in (Junot Diaz Quotes) Even if you didn’t come from another country, the idea of how do you make a home somewhere new is common to anyone who’s either going to college, shifting towns (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) 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) My greatest responsibility is to acknowledge the mistakes and the shortcomings of the country in which I live, to acknowledge my privileges, and to try to make it a better place (Junot Diaz Quotes) My thing is, I’m just way too harsh. It’s an enormous impediment, and that’s just the truth of it. It doesn’t make me any better, make me any worse, it certainly isn’t more valorous. I have a character defect, man (Junot Diaz Quotes) There is a lot of scepticism today as to whether memoir is real. But when fiction is done at a certain level there is scepticism as to whether it is really fiction (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) She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all (Junot Diaz Quotes) It’s exactly at these moments, when all hope has vanished, that prayer has dominion (Junot Diaz Quotes) 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) In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book (Junot Diaz Quotes) That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough (Junot Diaz Quotes) Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him (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) What else she doesn’t know: that the man next to her would end up being her husband and the father of her two children, that after two years together he would leave her, her third and final heartbreak, and she would never love again (Junot Diaz Quotes) And that’s when I know it’s over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it’s the end (Junot Diaz Quotes)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7