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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.
More from Junot Diaz (131 quotes) →More quotes by Junot Diaz
- “You never forget the discovery years. First kisses. The first time you try certain foods.”Junot Diaz
- “I mean, the nation in which we live - and the world in which we live - is so extraordinarily more like a futu…”Junot Diaz
- “Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don't feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbou…”Junot Diaz
- “I'm an immigrant and I will stay an immigrant forever.”Junot Diaz
Books: more sayings
- “Words are power. The more words you know and can recognize, use, define, understand, the more power you will…”Quraysh Ali Lansana & Georgia A. Popoff
- “I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, b…”Daniel Suarez
- “I like to match what I wear to my book jacket - it's a little bit cheesy, but it's my thing.”Emily Giffin