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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.

Junot Diaz

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Junot Diaz
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 31
Faculty Member
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Writer
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Junot Diaz
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My art feels like it's real disobedient. I can fill notebooks with observations and maybe they find their way into the work unconsciously, which is great. I've never been able to directly plug, like to take a little snip that I've picked up on the street and transfer it into a story. I don't know what's wrong, but it never works that way.
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I grew up in the shadow of the Trujillato, saw how the regime had ravaged so many families.
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The world should always be concerned whenever a vast human rights violation occurs anywhere on the planet.
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Out of nowhere you said, I love you. For whatever it's worth.
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Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.
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Clavo saca clavo. Nothing sacas nothing, you reply. No one will ever be like her.
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The Caribbean is such an apocalyptic place, whether it's the decimation of the indigenous populations by the Europeans, whether it's the importation of slaves and their subsequent being worked to death by the millions in many ways, whether it's the immigrant processes which began for many people, new worlds ending their old ones.
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I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.
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Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.
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What a surprise (we all know how tolerant the tolerant are).
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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.
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You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto. Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacles growing out of your chest.
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This is what I know: people's hopes go on forever.
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We get so many people saying short fiction is not economical, that it doesn't sell but there are so many of us enjoying writing it and reading it. So it's wonderful to be around people who love short fiction too - it's like hanging around with my tribe.
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Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.
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You can't regret the life you didn't lead.
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I have three storage units, and that's no lie. Three storage units. All books.
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'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.
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The U.S. that I had imagined was nowhere near as crazy and as incredibly damaging and brutal and indifferent as the U.S. that we're currently living in. I thought I was being transgressive, apocalyptic, an out-there person. And then reality lapped me, it just lapped me.
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She had reason to doubt him he was real good at planning but real bad at doing.
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