Top 131 Quotes by Junot Diaz

About Junot Diaz

These are some quotes by American author Junot Diaz Writer, who was born on December 31, 1968.

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.

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

Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read it - some of my favorites, Gina Franco and Angela Shaw and Cornelius Eady and Kevin Young, remind me daily that unless the words sing and dance, what's the use of putting them down on paper.

Junot Diaz

New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino.

New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino.

Junot Diaz

We get so many people saying short fiction is not economical, that it doesn't sell; but there are so many of us enjoying writing it and reading it. So it's wonderful to be around people who love short fiction too - it's like hanging around with my tribe.

Junot Diaz

Long before the idea of multiculturalism, in public people could say almost anything to you and get away with it.

Long before the idea of multiculturalism, in public people could say almost anything to you and get away with it.

Junot Diaz

I'm a product of a fragmented world.

I'm a product of a fragmented world.

Junot Diaz

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.

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

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.

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

Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards.

Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards.

Junot Diaz

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

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

Junot Diaz

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