Junot Diaz Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end - whether we've had direct experience or not - there's part of you that knows there's absolutely no more piercing betrayal. People are undone by it.”

“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.”

“My African roots made me what I am today. They're the reason I exist at all.”

“Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just the truth of it.”

“Infidelity raises profound questions about intimacy.”

“Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.”

“I guess I'm just hopelessly fascinated by the realities that you can assemble out of connected fragments.”

“Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That's the nature of genre.”

“Just the fact that you get to live and breathe and interact with the world - that's pretty marvelous.”