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... →
Junot Diaz
I love 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' That was like the only black book we read in high school.
It's extraordinary how many people read a book that's new and weird and befriend it.
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... →
You know, I was a kid who had difficulty speaking English when I first immigrated. But in my head, when I read a book, I spoke English perfectly. No... →
Some people are just so happy to get published to, they sign anything. Next thing you know, they've signed over the rights to their book.
Eric Jerome Dickey
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
Emily Dickinson
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample.
Janice Dickinson
Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and... →
Joan Didion