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Junot Diaz

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.

— Junot Diaz art

Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.

— Junot Diaz work

I look most like myself... when I'm wearing my black, nerdy engineering glasses.

— Junot Diaz self

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

— Junot Diaz writing

Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families.

— Junot Diaz art

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

— Junot Diaz truth

Nobody warned me that when you fall in love, you really fall in love forever.

— Junot Diaz love

God bless perseverance. Because it's not easy.

— Junot Diaz perseverance

The Caribbean is such an apocalyptic place, whether it's the decimation of the indigenous populations by the Europeans, whether it's the importation of slaves and their subsequent being worked to death by the millions in many ways, whether it's the immigrant processes which began for many people, new worlds ending their old ones.

— Junot Diaz death

When I got heartbroken at 20, it just felt like someone had spiraled a football right into my skull. At 40, it feels like someone had driven a 757 right through me.

— Junot Diaz art

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

— Junot Diaz freedom

I am a chatty person, but colossally discreet.

— Junot Diaz loss

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 life

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

— Junot Diaz reason

Infidelity raises profound questions about intimacy.

— Junot Diaz questions

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

— Junot Diaz hope

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

— Junot Diaz author

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

— Junot Diaz world

When I read Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisneros as a freshman at Rutgers, it all clicked - that writing was all I wanted to do. It became my calling.

— Junot Diaz writing

I was part of that group of kids growing up in the '80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to call 'living in the shadow of Dr. Manhattan,' where we would have dreams all the time that New York City was being destroyed, and that that wall of light and destruction was rolling out and would just devour our neighborhood.

— Junot Diaz dreams

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 writing

I was neither black enough for the black kids or Dominican enough for the Dominican kids. I didn't have a safe category.

— Junot Diaz ego

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 work

Spin is 'something is beautiful because we say it's beautiful.'

— Junot Diaz beautiful

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.

— Junot Diaz memory

People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end - whether weve had direct experience or not - theres part of you that knows theres absolutely no more piercing betrayal. People are undone by it.

— Junot Diaz art

I’m like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.

— Junot Diaz good

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