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I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one of the things that happened when I finished 'Drown' was that I got busy living. I'd never travelled, I'd never seen anything. So I did as much travelling as my job teaching would allow.

~Junot Diaz

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I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read.

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I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that.

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I am a person who dreads any kind of public exposure and any kind of public event. I spend all day, if I have to do a reading, preparing.

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I'm sure I'm one of those undiagnosed people with social anxiety.

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It took me 11 years to struggle through one dumb book, and every day you just want to give up. But you don't find out you're an artist because you do something really well.

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I can always tell if someone's from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard.

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To an outsider, I just seem like a list of accomplishments. To me, all there is is how often I fail.

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New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino.

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I write for the people I grew up with. I took extreme pains for my book to not be a native informant. Not: 'This is Dominican food. This is a Spanish word.' I trust my readers, even non-Spanish ones.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: December 31st, 1968

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