Check out these words of wisdom on writing from New Yorker-published author Junot Díaz (via Penn State's Daily Collegian):

"I never understood why you would drop Moby Dick on somebody. That's like a pro football player being like, 'Lemme tackle you.'"

"It is always where you fail that you will find your most interesting material."

"People will read a story if there is infidelity in it."

"I write the kinds of stories that boys tell when they are talking to only boys."

(Thanks to Maud Newton for this tip.)