Junot Diaz Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)
Junot Diaz quotes and sayings page 7 (55 year old writer). Here's quote # 61 through 70 out of the 131 we have for him.
“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.”
“I read a book a week, man. And I don't have a great memory, but I have a good memory about what I read.”
“I'm a product of a fragmented world.”
“I'm of African descent and my sister looks completely black, but I didn't look black. I was the super-nerdy kid who was also willing to fight.”
“I'm sure I'm one of those undiagnosed people with social anxiety.”
“It's extraordinary how many people read a book that's new and weird and befriend it.”
“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.”
“When I was working on 'Drown' - this was way back in the mid-'90s - I had this idea that I wanted to do another collected stories. I wanted to do another book like 'Drown' that focused specifically on infidelity.”
“'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.”
“For kind of sophisticated art I'm interested in, the larger structural rebuke has to be so subtle that it has to be distributed at an almost sub-atomic level. Otherwise, you fall into the kind of preachy, moralistic fable that I don't think makes for good literature.”
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