Junot Diaz Quotes

I have come to understand and appreciate writers much more recently since I started working on a book last fall. Before that, I thought golf writers got up every morning, played a round of golf, had lunch, showed up for our last three holes and then went to dinner.

I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.

I starting writing when I was about 13 or 14 years old.

Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.

I had never written anything before in my life except maybe in high school when I wrote a short story, and my mother had to put an ending on that.

I've been writing since I was 12 years old.

I've been writing since I was maybe seven.

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

To be a writer, you need to like spending a lot of time by yourself in the company of imaginary people.

The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.

Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.

I enjoy writing.

All experience helps when you write.

I didn't write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.

My first true lesson in writing came from Mr. Bowden when I was 16. At my high school, he was the teacher known to be the very best at literature and writing.

I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.

I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer.

Before Arthur, I'd dismissed altogether writing fiction. You only have so many semi-sharp arrows in your quiver, I'd told myself, and I was not going to be able to write a novel.

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

Writing was something I have always been interested in. I've grown up in a household full of books, with both my parents English teachers and very booky.

I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.