Junot Diaz Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

• But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.

  Junot Diaz

  Running, Years, Way

  Junot Diaz (2008). “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, p.209, Faber & Faber

• Run a hand through your hair, like the white boys do, even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa.

  Junot Diaz

  Running, Boys, Hair

  "How to date a brown girl ( black girl, white girl or halfie)" by Junot Diaz, www.newyorker.com. December 25, 1995.

• Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they're running on medicinal-strength Updike. But for me a story is as daunting a prospect as a novel.

  Junot Diaz

  Running, Stories, Novel

  "This Week in Fiction: Questions for Junot Diaz". Interview with Cressida Leyshon, www.newyorker.com. March 15, 2010.

• You can't find intimacy - you can't find home - when you're always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood.

  Junot Diaz

  Running, Hurt, Home

  Interview with Matt Okie, www.identitytheory.com. September 2, 2008.

• I feel most like myself... after I run - I go out for five miles every morning.

  Junot Diaz

  Running, Morning, Miles

• I came up under [Ronald] Reagan and under [George] Bush, and what are we to do now? We are here to fight. People can run off all they want. But for me, [Donald] Trump is already in the Dominican Republic.

  Junot Diaz

  Running, Fighting, People

  "Junot Díaz is staying put". Interview with Marcela García, www.bostonglobe.com. April 6, 2016.

• Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.

  Junot Diaz

  Running, Dictatorship, Wells

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