advice to Aspiring Authors from Junot Díaz

Junot Diaz advice to authors

“The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.”

—Junot Díaz, from The Daily Beast’s “How I Write” interviews. Díaz is a Dominican-American author, who is known for his best-selling novel, The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. It won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His latest book, This Is How You Lose Her, is a collection of short stories that was a finalist for the National Book Award.

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