Junot Diaz Quotes About Childhood

Quotes about: Childhood

• For me I was always a smart nerdy kid. I wasn't the smartest and I wasn't the nerdiest, but I was a smart nerdy kid my whole childhood, and I definitely wanted to be somehow involved with reading the rest of my life, and I came from a community, I lived in a community, I was part of a community where reading was considered completely alien.

  Junot Diaz

  Smart, Reading, Kids

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• I spent my entire childhood feeling like a freak because I liked to read. It's just like, "Eh, no one else likes to read but me; I must be crazy!"

  Junot Diaz

  Crazy, Childhood, Feelings

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• [Immigrating] didn't burn out my desire to travel, though that can happen. There's nothing like immigration to make you want to just stay put. But what I think of as home is this life between Santo Domingo and the parts of New Jersey and New York City that were my childhood, so in my mind it's like home is all those things combined.

  Junot Diaz

  New York, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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