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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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- “Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards.”Junot Diaz
- “I'm just this Dominican kid from New Jersey.”Junot Diaz
- “'Drown' was always a hybrid book. It's connected stories - partially a story collection but partially a novel…”Junot Diaz
- “Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.”Junot Diaz