It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7 A.M., would work a full eight... →
Junot Diaz
Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we're always lacking something.
I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces work.
I know for a fact that - it's just the way our biases work now in the industry of literature, but certainly a short story collection does not... →
When I write, what I long for is not more realism or fiction but more courage. That's what I always find myself short on and what I have to... →
In the end, all worlds, whether they're set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fictions. Sure, you don't got to do too much work to... →
So the kind of boy I was, or that I was told to be, you were kind of this like half-gladiator, half-dude who, you know, was supposed to have as many... →
I do think that books are invaluable as a reservoir of what we call the human space. And this is why I think that, even if they're threatened... →
I do think that we all draw limits and I feel like part of the work of an artist is it shouldn't be fun. This shouldn't be comfortable.... →
I wring my hands because I know that as a dude, my privilege, my long-term deficiencies work against me in writing women, no matter how hard I try... →