I always think about myself as a writer; that comes out of being a reader first, and I don't think I kind of got to really playing with language in any formal way probably until I was in my mid-twenties.
Junot DiazIn 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.
Junot DiazThe anti-immigrant logic has basically saturated our world. I'm staying, and I'm fighting.
Junot DiazThatโs life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like itโs nothing. If you ask me I donโt think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. Thatโs enough.
Junot Diaz