398 Quotes by Junot Díaz

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.

'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of readers cannot be underestimated.

Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just the truth of it.

I look most like myself... when I'm wearing my black, nerdy engineering glasses.

I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that.

I'm sure I'm one of those undiagnosed people with social anxiety.

John Carter was also one of our first recognizable superhumans and there is little doubt that his extraordinary physical feats inspired Superman's creators. Remember: before Superman could fly or turn back time, he was nothing less than an earthbound crime-fighting John Carter in tights.

It took me 11 years to struggle through one dumb book, and every day you just want to give up. But you don't find out you're an artist because you do something really well.

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.