Junot Diaz Quotes

I love writing shorter fiction.

I hope to be with you as a writer for a very long time, and I hope that you will enjoy reading my work, because readers are the highest form of life on this planet.

I have done some short pieces that are not horror.

I have always loved short stories. I have been at least as influenced by the short story masters as I have been by novelists.

I can't stand the short story form, which, after all, is a magazine form.

The short story has been here and is here and will be here as long as we are.

I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction; I also teach all kinds of not-so-traditional fiction.

I like short stories.

When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.

To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form.

I like small stories.

I'm clearly not a writer, but I'm always a fan of them.

I love Joy Williams, Lorrie Moore: such great short-story writers.

Short fiction encourages experimentation, and it's fun to play with form and try experiments that may or may not work out.

I am really excited by the form of short fiction.

After writing several chapter books, I found my true passion: historical fiction.

I want to write some books. Books that have nothing to do with music, just some fiction type of books for a whole different audience of people.

You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.

Ever since I was young, 14 or 15, I wondered if you could write a book that combined the visceral thrill of watching a movie with the total immersion you feel when you're inside a good book. And I had some success as a screenwriter before I began writing books.

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

I first became familiar with Dave Eggers's work when I was living in San Francisco and enrolled at USF's MFA Program.

When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't write the autobiographical first novel. I was so, so determined not to write about a 24-year-old journalist. It was going to have male characters, and middle-aged people, so I could say, 'Look, I'm not just writing about my life, I'm a real author.'

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

I feel lucky that I get to read and publish stories that are not necessarily overtly horror in 'Best Horror of the Year.'

I was definitely meant to be a young adult author, and I love it - I'm here to stay!