Top 131 Quotes by Junot Diaz

Spin is 'something is beautiful because we say it's beautiful.'

There is a lot of scepticism today as to whether memoir is real. But when fiction is done at a certain level there is scepticism as to whether it is really fiction.

Any art worth its name requires you to be fundamentally lost for a very long time.

I know for a fact that - it's just the way our biases work now in the industry of literature, but certainly a short story collection does not receive the same kind of attention as a novel.

I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for connections.

I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.

I'm an immigrant and I will stay an immigrant forever.

I love 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' That was like the only black book we read in high school.

Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.

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.