Pulitzer winner Junot Diaz is too successful to write his next novel

“I was so used to the life I led; I understood its layouts, its gravities, its physics, its weather. Then suddenly you enter this other realm of experience. This world is so completely new, that I find myself having a strange immigrant relationship to it. I’m not at all at ease.

“I’m cautious about what I do inside this world. I’m still so conscious and self-conscious that I’m waiting for the moment to be able to slip back into my normal world.”