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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

Junot Diaz

I didn’t start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that.

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Junot Diaz

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.

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Junot Diaz

I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one of the things that happened when I finished ‘Drown’ was that I got busy living. I’d never travelled, I’d never seen anything. So I did as much travelling as my job teaching would allow.

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Junot Diaz

I sleep way too much and I read tremendously.

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Junot Diaz

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

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Junot Diaz

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.

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Junot Diaz

If you, like, consciously think about being cool, you’re not cool. If you consciously think about being, like, different or original, you ain’t different or original.

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Junot Diaz

I wring my hands because I know that as a dude, my privilege, my long-term deficiencies work against me in writing women, no matter how hard I try and how talented I am.

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Junot Diaz

For kind of sophisticated art I’m interested in, the larger structural rebuke has to be so subtle that it has to be distributed at an almost sub-atomic level. Otherwise, you fall into the kind of preachy, moralistic fable that I don’t think makes for good literature.

– Junot Diaz

Junot Diaz

I think the average guy thinks they’re pro-woman, just because they think they’re a nice guy and someone has told them that they’re awesome. But the truth is far from it.

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Junot Diaz

I mean in the community that I grew up in, you know, a very, you know, mixed, almost entirely African Diaspora community, one of the things that we were not ever supposed to say was how much self-hatred and colorism determined and guided what we would call our desire. In other words, what we would consider beautiful.

– Junot Diaz

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