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 have three storage units, and that's no lie. Three storage units. All books.

I have three storage units, and that's no lie. Three storage units. All books.

Junot Diaz

Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing.

Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing.

Junot Diaz

I'm still trying to figure out how to write about cancer and my family's experience with it. If I had been able to write 'The Pura Principle' back in those days, I'm positive it would have had no humor in it. Which means the story would have been false.

Junot Diaz

I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them.

I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them.

Junot Diaz

In minority communities there's a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There's a misunderstanding of what an artist does.

In minority communities there's a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There's a misunderstanding of what an artist does.

Junot Diaz

Just the fact that you get to live and breathe and interact with the world - that's pretty marvelous.

Just the fact that you get to live and breathe and interact with the world - that's pretty marvelous.

Junot Diaz

It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7 A.M., would work a full eight and more. Scribbled at the dinner table, in bed, on the toilet, on the No. 6 train, at Shea Stadium. I did everything I could. But none of it worked.

Junot Diaz

I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.

I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.

Junot Diaz

Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don't feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against the monster narrative of your family.

Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don't feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against the monster narrative of your family.

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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