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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 seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them.”Junot Diaz
- “Long before the idea of multiculturalism, in public people could say almost anything to you and get away with…”Junot Diaz
- “Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just the truth of it.”Junot Diaz
- “I guess I'm just hopelessly fascinated by the realities that you can assemble out of connected fragments.”Junot Diaz
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