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....

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,....

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.....

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

One of the many characteristics of the new is that, at first, it's very hard to recognize it for what....

I'm still trying to figure out how to write about cancer and my family's experience with it. If I had....