"I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion."

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I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one of the things that happened when I finished Drown was that I got busy living. I'd never travelled, I'd never seen anything. So I did as much travelling as my job teaching would allow.

— Junot Diaz