Junot Diaz Quotes

I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.

I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.

So many of us, we love these things that come from Japan. We play the video games every day, we read the manga, people watch the cartoons, they absolutely love it.

I love Japan. I love the collision of the modern and ancient worlds coming together in that place. It's so high-tech and cool.

I love Tokyo, I've been several times. The first trip was just weird; it was a weird time. It was in the '90s, and it was different then.

I love Japan; it's very special.

I love comic books and I love anime.

When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle's wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance... and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.

I don't think I've had love at first sight. But, I've definitely had moments where I've seen a person, and I'm like, 'Wow, there is something different about you, and I really want to get to know you.'

I think I'll always be a hopeless romantic.

I lived for two years in Odawara, a castle town an hour outside of Tokyo, near the sea. It's a beautiful place, and I drew on my experiences there when writing 'The Lake of Dreams.'

I wouldn't mind a little bow. In Japan, they bow. I love it. Only thing I love about Japan.

I don't know if it's responsible for kids of my age to be so aggressively pursuing monogamous binds, because I don't think we're ready for them. The romanticism within our culture dictates that that's what you're supposed to be looking for.

I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me.

I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.

Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities.

I really love traveling to Japan.

I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with.

It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I preferred instead. Not power-ridden monuments, but individual buildings which tell a quieter story: the artist's studio, or the Belle Epoque house built by a forgotten financier for a just-remembered courtesan.

I am such a diehard romantic. I guess a part of me thinks I am Juliet.

Japan, for me, will always be my inspiration source.

My parents came from the Kyushu Island in the Southern part of Japan to find work in Tokyo. So we could only afford to live downtown, in a low-income area. It was just by the river, and whenever a typhoon came around, we were under water up to, like, here. That's the kind of place we lived in.

Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.

I was born in Japan and moved to L.A. when I was six, and I grew up with Japanese culture. I was reading manga, and I read 'Death Note' in real time in Japanese.

I love 'Pop Team Epic,' which is really trippy.