Authors — Quotes

Junot Díaz Quotes: 10

Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.
Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.
This Is How You Lose Her
You see, in my view 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."[Becoming a Writer/ The List, O Magazine, November 2009]
You can't regret the life you didn't lead.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Dude, you don't want to be dead. Take it from me. No-pussy is bad. But dead is like no-pussy times ten.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao