I mean, I’m an artist by nature; no one considers what I do and no one knows who the heck I am, but that anybody does – it is astonishing. Junot Diaz Read Quote
I am a person who dreads any kind of public exposure and any kind of public event. I spend all day, if I have to do a reading, preparing. Junot Diaz Read Quote
It took me 11 years to struggle through one dumb book, and every day you just want to give up. But you don’t find out you’re an artist because you do something really well. Junot Diaz Read Quote
I can always tell if someone’s from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard. Junot Diaz Read Quote
To an outsider, I just seem like a list of accomplishments. To me, all there is is how often I fail. Junot Diaz Read Quote
I write for the people I grew up with. I took extreme pains for my book to not be a native informant. Not: ‘This is Dominican food. This is a Spanish word.’ I trust my readers, even non-Spanish ones. Junot Diaz Read Quote
My father was a trigamist; he supported three families. We were never not poor. Junot Diaz Read Quote
Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship – it’s all one person speaking. Junot Diaz Read Quote
Drown’ was always a hybrid book. It’s connected stories – partially a story collection but partially a novel. I always wanted the reader to decide which genre they thought the book belonged to more – story, novel, neither, both. Junot Diaz Read Quote
