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Junot Diaz Quotes

American - Writer | December 31, 1968 -

'Drown' was always a hybrid book. It's connected stories - partially a story collection but partially a novel. I always wanted the reader to decide which genre they thought the book belonged to more - story, novel, neither, both.

Book Story Thought Connected More

Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they're running on medicinal-strength Updike. But for me a story is as daunting a prospect as a novel.

Me Story Friends Hard Out Weekly

I don't think I could have tackled 'The Pura Principle' until now. It takes me about twenty years to come to term with any difficult period in my life, to get enough of a grasp on it to fictionalize it.

Life Me Think My Life Enough Now

I'm still trying to figure out how to write about cancer and my family's experience with it. If I had been able to write 'The Pura Principle' back in those days, I'm positive it would have had no humor in it. Which means the story would have been false.

Positive Family Humor Experience Out

I've always thought that you don't love a country by turning a blind eye to its crimes and to a problem. The way that you love a country is by seeing everything that it's done wrong, all of its mistakes, and still thinking that it's beautiful and that it's worthy.

Love Beautiful Mistakes Eye Thinking

In fact, looking at the darkest sides of the United States has only made me appreciate the things that we do right, the things that we do beautifully. We are, for all of our mistakes and all of our crimes, a remarkable place.

Mistakes Me Looking Appreciate Place

My greatest responsibility is to acknowledge the mistakes and the shortcomings of the country in which I live, to acknowledge my privileges, and to try to make it a better place.

Live Responsibility Mistakes Better

I can't imagine anybody who ends up being an artist who didn't pass through a time of geekiness.

Time Artist Through Up Imagine Pass

I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get.

Reading You Kid Get Obsessed Really

Students teach all sorts of things but most importantly they make explicit the courage that it takes to be a learner, the courage it takes to open yourself to the transformative power of real learning and that courage I am exposed to almost every day at MIT and that I'm deeply grateful for.

Learning Power Courage Day Grateful

Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we're always lacking something.

Work Power Poetry Feel My Own More

There are a couple of strategies for writing about an absence or writing about a loss. One can create the person that was lost, develop the character of the fiancee. There's another strategy that one can employ, maybe riskier... Make the reader suffer the loss of the character in a more literal way.

Character Writing Strategy Loss Lost

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