In the end, all worlds, whether they’re set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fictions. Sure, you don’t got to do too much work to build a mundane world, but don’t get it twisted: you still got to do some work. Junot Diaz Read Quote
I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn’t write. For me, I’d die if I couldn’t read. Junot Diaz Read Quote
I do think that we all draw limits and I feel like part of the work of an artist is it shouldn’t be fun. This shouldn’t be comfortable. I’m not looking to make people feel unsafe, but I am looking to make people feel uncomfortable. Junot Diaz Read Quote
Colleagues are a wonderful thing – but mentors, that’s where the real work gets done. Junot Diaz Read Quote
Long before the idea of multiculturalism, in public people could say almost anything to you and get away with it. Junot Diaz Read Quote
Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That’s just the truth of it. Junot Diaz Read Quote
I have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it’s both. It seems like I’m always leaving my home. That’s part of the formula. I love the Dominican Republic. I go back all the time. I love New Jersey. Go back all the time. Junot Diaz Read Quote
Stereotypes, they’re sensual, cultural weapons. That’s the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing. Junot Diaz Read Quote
I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it’s not that surprising. I was of the generation that had grown up in the ’80s when Japan was ascendant (born aloft by a bubble whose burst crippled its economy for decades), and I’d fed on a steady diet of anime and samurai films. Junot Diaz Read Quote
