398 Quotes by Junot Díaz

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

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.

Know that in this world there’s somebody who will always love you.

You’re the only person I’ve ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can.

Love is the only thing – I don’t want to say that “makes it bearable” – but I feel like without the possibility of love, this place would just devour us.

I mean, the nation in which we live – and the world in which we live – is so extraordinarily more like a future than the futures that we’re being sold on the screen and on television.

This is what I know: people’s hopes go on forever.

I discovered early that as an artist there was absolutely nothing wrong with being surrounded by people who were not dedicated to your field.

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.