Quotes by : Junot Diaz

Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I....

People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end - whether we've had direct experience....

'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination,....

Students teach all sorts of things but most importantly they make explicit the courage that it takes....

The Caribbean is such an apocalyptic place, whether it's the decimation of the indigenous populations....

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

We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that....

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

I write for the people I grew up with. I took extreme pains for my book to not be a native informant.....

I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it's not that surprising.....