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.

I mean, the nation in which we live - and the world in which we live - is so extraordinarily more like a future than the futures that we're being sold on the screen and on television.

I mean, the nation in which we live - and the world in which we live - is so extraordinarily more like a future than the futures that we're being sold on the screen and on television.

Junot Diaz

We get these lives for free. I didn't do anything to get this life, and no matter what the hardships are, it is free and, in a way, it's an extraordinary bargain.

We get these lives for free. I didn't do anything to get this life, and no matter what the hardships are, it is free and, in a way, it's an extraordinary bargain.

Junot Diaz

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

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

Junot Diaz

Nobody warned me that when you fall in love, you really fall in love forever.

Nobody warned me that when you fall in love, you really fall in love forever.

Junot Diaz

I'm of African descent and my sister looks completely black, but I didn't look black. I was the super-nerdy kid who was also willing to fight.

I'm of African descent and my sister looks completely black, but I didn't look black. I was the super-nerdy kid who was also willing to fight.

Junot Diaz

I do think that books are invaluable as a reservoir of what we call the human space. And this is why I think that, even if they're threatened, the work that they do has an incalculable merit.

I do think that books are invaluable as a reservoir of what we call the human space. And this is why I think that, even if they're threatened, the work that they do has an incalculable merit.

Junot Diaz

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

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

Junot Diaz

Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That's the nature of genre.

Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That's the nature of genre.

Junot Diaz

I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get.

I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get.

Junot Diaz

A young person, or someone who's writing in a different way - in some ways you could say, eventually someone will find them. Eventually someone will hear them. But it's good a lot of young people persevere. Because sometimes you have to send something out a thousand times before anyone recognizes your value.

Junot Diaz

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