Junot Diaz

"I felt like summer had taken me over."

- Junot Diaz

"A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway."

- Junot Diaz

"Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That’s just the truth of it."

- Junot Diaz

"And that’s when I know it’s over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it’s the end."

- Junot Diaz

"A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, or because everything she does is golden. A writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway."

- Junot Diaz