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I'm not writing fairy tales or object lessons.

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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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For my first three books the setting (or place if you will) has always been a given - N.J. and the Dominican Republic and some N.Y.C. - so from one perspective you could say that the place in my work always comes first.
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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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Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won’t work.
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I can see myself watching him shave every morning. And at other time I see us in that house and see how one bright day (or a day like this, so cold your mind shifts every time the wind does) he will wake up and decide it's all wrong. I'm sorry, he'll say. I have to leave now.
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I guess it's true what they say: if you wait long enough everything changes.
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Shot at twenty-seven times - what a Dominican number.
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Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That's the nature of genre.
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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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I just want some space to myself every now and then. Every time I’m with you I have this sense that you want something from me.
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Run a hand through your hair, like the white boys do, even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa.
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I feel most like myself... after I run - I go out for five miles every morning.
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Once someone gets a little escape velocity going, ain't no play in the world that will keep them from leaving.
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You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture. That's what happened with your girlfriend, Paloma- she stooped to pick up her purse and your heart flew out of you.
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The half-life of love is forever.
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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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In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.
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When I was working on 'Drown' - this was way back in the mid-'90s - I had this idea that I wanted to do another collected stories. I wanted to do another book like 'Drown' that focused specifically on infidelity.
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I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them.
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Know that in this world there's somebody who will always love you.
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The truth is there ain’t no relationship in the world that doesn’t hit turbulence.
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