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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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Junot Diaz
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 31
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Science Fiction Writer
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
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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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I'm just this Dominican kid from New Jersey.
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but back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.
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