Quotes by : Junot Diaz

'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....

If you, like, consciously think about being cool, you're not cool. If you consciously think about being,....

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

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

My novel, which I had started with such hope shortly after publishing my first book of stories, wouldn't....

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

Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but....

When I write, what I long for is not more realism or fiction but more courage. That's what I always find....

I feel most like myself... after I run - I go out for five miles every morning.