American - Writer | December 31, 1968 -
People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end - whether we've had direct experience or not - there's part of you that knows there's absolutely no more piercing betrayal. People are undone by it.
Junot Diaz
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You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.
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I read a book a week, man. And I don't have a great memory, but I have a good memory about what I read.
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The thing is, you try your best, and what else you got? You try your best, really, that's all you can do. And for me, my best happens really so rarely.
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My thing is, I'm just way too harsh. It's an enormous impediment, and that's just the truth of it. It doesn't make me any better, make me any worse, it certainly isn't more valorous. I have a character defect, man.
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I'm a product of a fragmented world.
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My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power.
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We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves.
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I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.
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I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them.
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Technically, I split my time between N.Y.C. and Boston.
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I guess I'm just hopelessly fascinated by the realities that you can assemble out of connected fragments.
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