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I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces work.

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Junot Diaz
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 31
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
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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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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.
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You need to learn how to walk the world, he told me. There's a lot out there.
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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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This is what I know: people's hopes go on forever.
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You can't be a human without seeing.
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My greatest responsibility is to acknowledge the mistakes and the shortcomings of the country in which I live, to acknowledge my privileges, and to try to make it a better place.
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My father was a trigamist he supported three families. We were never not poor.
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My thing is every generation of Americans has to answer what we call the 'Superman Question.' Superman comes, lands in America. He's illegal. He's one of these kids. He's wrapped up in a red bullfighter's cape. And you've got to decide what we're gonna do with Superman.
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I prefer the 1950s where people were like, I'm a white supremacist, and that's who I am. Now people want to burn a cross on your lawn and call themselves not racists.
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People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong.
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The art is just really mysterious. If I understood it more, maybe I would write more.
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My African roots made me what I am today. They're the reason I exist at all.
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Books are wonderful, but they aren't that powerful.
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Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.
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Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.
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Used to be in the old days, only the pulp writers wrote like machines. Now everybody is expected to be literary John Henrys. So in that context someone like me is an anomaly.
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I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them.
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I sleep way too much and I read tremendously.
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Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory you won't see it often.
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