398 Quotes by Junot Díaz

The truth is there ain’t no relationship in the world that doesn’t hit turbulence.

The Prisoner’s Wife echoes Edwidge Danticat’s Farming of the Bones in the urgency in which it reminds us of the possibility of love even amidst the ruins. This is a terrifying, heart-breaking and, ultimately, important book.

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.

I guess it’s true what they say: if you wait long enough everything changes.

The world should always be concerned whenever a vast human rights violation occurs anywhere on the planet.

Books don’t live and die by awards. You don’t listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards.

Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship – it’s all one person speaking.

My African roots made me what I am today. They’re the reason I exist at all.

When I read Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisneros as a freshman at Rutgers, it all clicked – that writing was all I wanted to do. It became my calling.