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A young person, or someone who's writing in a different way - in some ways you could say, eventually someone will find them. eventually someone will hear them. but it's good a lot of young people persevere. because sometimes you have to send something out a thousand times before anyone recognizes your value.

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A Young Person, Or Someone Who's Writing

Junot Diaz

A young person, or someone who's writing in a different way - in some ways you could say, eventually someone will find them. eventually someone will hear them. but it's good a lot of young people persevere. because sometimes you have to send something out a thousand times before anyone recognizes your value.

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Man, them engagement rings, boy, they cost a lot. i was looking at 'em. cost like a thousand bucks, two thousand bucks, y'know. three thousand bucks. something like that- four thousand bucks. big number divisible by a thousand, anyways.

A lot of people say, well how can a loving god send anyone to hell? first of all god doesn't send anyone to hell. if we go to hell, it's by our own choice. but when somebody says to me, how can a loving god allow anyone to go to hell, i'll turn around and say, "well how can a holy, just, righteous god allow sin into his presence?"

I think right now is when we need to hear different voices coming out of all parts of the world. you can't just hear the politicians and the military leaders. you have to hear from the taxi drivers. you have to hear from the painters. you have to hear from the poets. you have to hear from the school teachers and the filmmakers and musicians.

He misses the feeling of creating something out of something. that’s right — something out of something. because something out of nothing is when you make something up out of thin air, in which case it has no value. anybody can do that. but something out of something means it was really there the whole time, inside you, and you discover it as part of something new, that’s never happened before.

I have a hard time writing. most writers have a hard time writing. i have a harder time than most because i'm lazier than most. [...] the other problem i have is fear of writing. the act of writing puts you in confrontation with yourself, which is why i think writers assiduously avoid writing. [...] not writing is more of a psychological problem than a writing problem. all the time i'm not writing i feel like a criminal. [...] it's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. especially when it goes on for years. it's much more relaxing actually to work.

You have to read a lot so you know what good writing looks like and you get inspired. you have to write a lot because it's like a sport - you have to practice. and, also, you have to persevere. don't give up. i got rejected on my first book, like, 14 times, but i just kept going. so believe in yourself and don't give up.

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