I always wanted to read. I always thought I was going to be a historian. I would go to school and study history and then end up in law school, once, I ran out of loot trying to be a history high school teacher. But my dream was always to place myself in a situation where I was always surrounded by books.
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 DiazI 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 DiazIf you really want a prize, or if you really want applause, you should try to write as many books as humanly possible.
Junot DiazUsually at the end of each story we're thrown clear out of the story's world and then we're given a new world to enter. What's unique about a linked collection is that it can deliver both sets of narrative pleasures - the novel's long immersion into character-world and the story anthology's energetic (and mortal) brevity - the linked collection is unique in its ability to be both abrupt and longitudinal simultaneously.
Junot Diaz