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" I am a person who dreads any kind of public exposure and any kind of public event. I spend all day, if I have to do a reading, preparing. "
Junot Diaz
Person
Kind
I Am
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" The one thing about being a dude and writing from a female perspective is that the baseline is, you suck. The baseline is it takes so long for you to work those atrophied muscles - for you to get on parity with what women's representations of men are. "
Junot Diaz
Women
Writing
Work
" I'm one of those apocalyptics. From the start of my immigrant days, I've been fascinated by end-of-the-world stories, by outbreak narratives, and always wanted to set a world-ender on Hispaniola. "
Junot Diaz
Always
Start
Immigrant
" I guess I'm just hopelessly fascinated by the realities that you can assemble out of connected fragments. "
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Just
Out
Guess
" I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read. "
Junot Diaz
Me
Always
Myself
" 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. "
Junot Diaz
Me
Man
Character
" I'm a product of a fragmented world. "
Junot Diaz
Product
World
Fragmented
" Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just the truth of it. "
Junot Diaz
Truth
American
Future
" A young person, or someone who's writing in a different way - in some ways you could say, eventually someone will find them. Eventually someone will hear them. But it's good a lot of young people persevere. Because sometimes you have to send something out a thousand times before anyone recognizes your value. "
Junot Diaz
Value
Writing
You
" 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. "
Junot Diaz
Dreams
Out
Will
" I mean, I'm an artist by nature; no one considers what I do and no one knows who the heck I am, but that anybody does - it is astonishing. "
Junot Diaz
Artist
I Am
Mean
" We hide so well. This is the bottom line: how hidden is male subjectivity? Name five books where male subjectivity is produced in an honest way. "
Junot Diaz
Hidden
Way
Name
" I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for connections. "
Junot Diaz
People
Enjoy
Writing
" God bless perseverance. Because it's not easy. "
Junot Diaz
Because
Perseverance
God
" I love 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' That was like the only black book we read in high school. "
Junot Diaz
Love
School
Black
" I am a chatty person, but colossally discreet. "
Junot Diaz
Am
I Am
Discreet
" I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get. "
Junot Diaz
Get
Kid
You
" I can always tell if someone's from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard. "
Junot Diaz
Always
Someone
Die
" I look most like myself... when I'm wearing my black, nerdy engineering glasses. "
Junot Diaz
Look
Most
Myself
" 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. "
Junot Diaz
Me
Moment
Prize
" It's extraordinary how many people read a book that's new and weird and befriend it. "
Junot Diaz
Book
New
Weird
" Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing. "
Junot Diaz
Way
Level
People
" I discovered early that as an artist there was absolutely nothing wrong with being surrounded by people who were not dedicated to your field. "
Junot Diaz
People
Nothing
Wrong
" I feel most like myself... after I run - I go out for five miles every morning. "
Junot Diaz
Like
Morning
Feel
" Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families. "
Junot Diaz
Love Is
Great
Love
" I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them. "
Junot Diaz
Telling
Enjoy
Seem
" I'm an immigrant and I will stay an immigrant forever. "
Junot Diaz
Will
Immigrant
Stay
" Even I thought I would be a writer who put something out every year. But that's not how it worked out. "
Junot Diaz
Year
Writer
Thought
" I wrote my first sucio story, as I call them, in 1997. This was always my 'cheater's book,' my book about sucios desgraciados. My plan was to write a book about how people deal with love and loss. "
Junot Diaz
Loss
People
Love
" For my first three books the setting (or place if you will) has always been a given - N.J. and the Dominican Republic and some N.Y.C. - so from one perspective you could say that the place in my work always comes first. "
Junot Diaz
Three
Place
Perspective
" Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don't feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against the monster narrative of your family. "
Junot Diaz
Memory
Feel
Go