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