Junot Diaz : (5)

" I can’t imagine anybody who ends up being an artist who didn’t pass through a time of geekiness. " - Junot Diaz

" I mean in the community that I grew up in, you know, a very, you know, mixed, almost entirely African Diaspora community, one of the things that we were not ever supposed to say was how much self-hatred and colorism determined and guided what we would call our desire. In other words, what we would consider beautiful. " - Junot Diaz

" 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

" Any art worth its name requires you to be fundamentally lost for a very long time. " - Junot Diaz

" It wasn’t that I couldn’t write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7 A.M., would work a full eight and more. Scribbled at the dinner table, in bed, on the toilet, on the No. 6 train, at Shea Stadium. I did everything I could. But none of it worked. " - Junot Diaz