Junot Díaz

“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.”
― Junot Díaz, [Becoming a Writer/ The List, O Magazine, November 2009]

“What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.”
― Junot Díaz

“In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.”
― Junot Díaz