Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.

Junot Diaz
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  1. You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when...

  2. We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves.

  3. I was part of that group of kids growing up in the '80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to call 'living in the shadow of Dr. Manhattan, ' where we would have dreams all the time that New York City was being destroyed,...

  4. I'm still trying to figure out how to write about cancer and my family's experience with it. If I had been able to write 'The Pura Principle' back in those days, I'm positive it would have had no humor in it. Which means the story...

  5. My novel, which I had started with such hope shortly after publishing my first book of stories, wouldn't budge past the 75-page mark. Nothing I wrote past page 75 made any kind of sense. Nothing. Which would have been fine if the first 75 pages...

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