Quotes About Junot Díaz

Sure, I liked girls but I was always too terrified to speak to them unless we were arguing or I was calling them stupidos, which was one of my favorite words that year.

Well, when you look at a lot of science fiction novels they're asking questions about power. There are questions about what it means to have power and what are the long-term consequences of power.

I guess I'm just hopelessly fascinated by the realities that you can assemble out of connected fragments.

I've been trying to write. I also spent a lot of time on different campuses, in conversation, helping other writers. That's what I do: I teach them writing.

We can speculate. Last time I checked, the future doesn't take my advice.

For me it's a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and honouring and making for a brief moment short fiction the centre of the literary universe.

Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing.

As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation, loved atomically.

She seemed tired and watched the world outside like maybe she was expecting it to speak to her.

maybe she just doesn't like children. Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.

As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiations, loved atomically.

On one DR trip you drive up to La Vega and put her name out there. You show a picture, too, like a private eye. It is of the two of you, the one time you went to the beach, to Sandy Hook. Both of you are smiling. Both of you blinked.

desapariciones. La dejaban en mala posición ante La Inca y los vecinos, que siempre le preguntaban

But hey, it's only a story, with no solid evidence, the kind of shit only a nerd could love.

I must have the footprint of fresh disaster on my face. They listen to my troubles like they're a couple of capos and I'm talking murder.

Parece que soy alérgico a la actividad. Y Lola dijo: Ja, me parece más bien que eres alérgico a todo tipo de esfuerzo.

Love is the only thing - I don't want to say that "makes it bearable" - but I feel like without the possibility of love, this place would just devour us.

I know for a fact that - it's just the way our biases work now in the industry of literature, but certainly a short story collection does not receive the same kind of attention as a novel.