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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
- “I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.”Junot Diaz
- “I read a book a week, man. And I don't have a great memory, but I have a good memory about what I read.”Junot Diaz
- “For me it's a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and honouring and making for a brief moment…”Junot Diaz
- “For kind of sophisticated art I'm interested in, the larger structural rebuke has to be so subtle that it has…”Junot Diaz
Spanish Sayings: more sayings
- “When we started on 'Power,' I was committed to respecting the differences among Spanish dialects: Dominican,…”Courtney A. Kemp
- “The fact is I do feel very Spanish, like when I'm talking to my wife and daughter in Spanish at two in the af…”Antoine Griezmann
- “I graduated college valedictorian, got an M.A. from Columbia University in Spanish literature at the age of t…”Jedediah Bila
Explore Trust
- “I actually don't have a great surplus of ideas. Some evolve very slowly, over many years, but I sort of trust…”Miranda July
- “I keep my kindness in my eyes Gently folded around my iris Like a velvety, brown blanket That warms my vision…”Sanober Khan
- “I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself.”James Carville