61 Junot Diaz Quotes for You to Enjoy

Junot Diaz

American Writer

Born: Dec 31, 1968

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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

God bless perseverance. Because it's not easy. Junot Diaz

God Perseverance Easy Bless Because God Bless

You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. 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

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I do think that we all draw limits and I feel like part of the work of an artist is it shouldn't be fun. This shouldn't be comfortable. I'm not looking to make people feel unsafe, but I am looking to make people feel uncomfortable. Junot Diaz

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I'm not writing fairy tales or object lessons. Junot Diaz

Writing Object Tales Fairy Fairy Tales Lessons

Infidelity raises profound questions about intimacy. Junot Diaz

Intimacy About Questions Infidelity Profound Raises

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

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I have three storage units, and that's no lie. Three storage units. All books. Junot Diaz

Lie Three Books Storage Units

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

You Fragments Guess Out Hopelessly Just Realities Connected Fascinated Assemble

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. Junot Diaz

Book Back Way Focused Collected Had Idea Drown Like Another Infidelity Wanted Stories Working Specifically

Students teach all sorts of things but most importantly they make explicit the courage that it takes to be a learner, the courage it takes to open yourself to the transformative power of real learning and that courage I am exposed to almost every day at MIT and that I'm deeply grateful for. Junot Diaz

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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

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I'm a product of a fragmented world. Junot Diaz

World Fragmented Product

I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men. Junot Diaz

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Technically, I split my time between N.Y.C. and Boston. Junot Diaz

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My mother took care of us until my father scrammed, and then she ended up working in the small-factory sector of New Jersey with a lot of other immigrants. Junot Diaz

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So the kind of boy I was, or that I was told to be, you were kind of this like half-gladiator, half-dude who, you know, was supposed to have as many girls as possible and work until your heart exploded, have no fear, you know. Junot Diaz

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Well, when you look at a lot of science fiction novels they're asking questions about power. There are questions about what it means to have power and what are the long-term consequences of power. Junot Diaz

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