Junot Diaz Quotes & Sayings (Page 11)

“I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get.”

“I'm just this Dominican kid from New Jersey.”

“I'm not writing fairy tales or object lessons.”

“It took me sixteen years to write.”

“Long before the idea of multiculturalism, in public people could say almost anything to you and get away with it.”

“My father was a trigamist; he supported three families. We were never not poor.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”