Junot Diaz Talks About What Made Him Become a Writer

Becoming a Writer

By Junot Diaz
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the November 2009 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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Write from the heart. Walk through that door. Don't ever really give up. Junot Diaz on how he discovered who he was really meant to be.

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