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About Junot Diaz
Dominican American writer and creative writing professor
Junot Díaz is a Dominican American writer and creative writing professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with 131 quotes on the site. He was also a former fiction editor at Boston Review. His work centers on the immigrant experience, especially the Latino immigrant experience. That focus shapes much of what he is known for as a writer and teacher.
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- “I don't think I could have tackled 'The Pura Principle' until now. It takes me about twenty years to come to…”Junot Diaz
- “My greatest responsibility is to acknowledge the mistakes and the shortcomings of the country in which I live…”Junot Diaz
- “New Jersey is to New York what Santo Domingo is to the United States. I always felt that those two landscapes…”Junot Diaz
- “When I became my masked identity I was this incredible little nerd, but in the real world I had to be this to…”Junot Diaz
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- “I'd rather be creative and be artistic and be able to play intricate music that moves and really takes you on…”Jim Root
- “When I was growing up and going to art school and learning about African-American art, much of it was a type…”Kehinde Wiley
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- “Novels are the means by which we can escape the moment we are imprisoned in, but at the same time, the roots…”Romesh Gunesekera
- “They waited awhile before lighting the candles; the gloom allowed the past to slip cozily into the present. B…”Bernhard Schlink
- “My routine is to create activities for myself unrelated to writing that allow little time for writing. This m…”Anthony McCarten