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— Junot Diaz"I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that."
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Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful.
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