“If Pulitzer prize-winner and Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz is to be believed, winning the award in 2008 for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, meant little more than a short-lived applause. ‘In America, people don’t like to read. But when a book wins a Pulitzer, people tend to pick up a copy. In that sense an award is good. They should probably give out 500 of these, just so people start reading some more,’ Diaz said, while talking about the difficulties of being a writer in America.”
— Junot Diaz in The Times of India speaking about America’s reading habits at the Jaipur Literature Festival.
