Daniel Alarcon quotes
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“Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller, whose gifts are displayed on every page of this beautiful, daring, and deeply humane book.”
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“As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasnt made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.”
-- Daniel AlarconSource : "Daniel Alarcón" by Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14 & 21, 2010.
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“For fiction, Im not particularly nationalistic. Im not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.”
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“When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated.”
-- Daniel AlarconSource : "The Exchange: Daniel Alarcón" by Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2009.
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“Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. Thats half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language.”
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“I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make.”
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“I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.”
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“I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.”
-- Daniel AlarconSource : "'This American Life,' en Español". Interview with Ian Gordon, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.
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“I love to walk through the streets of Jesus Maria and Pueblo Libre. The Spanish colonial buildings are in bright colors, two stories high, with these intricate wooden, windowed balconies.”
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“I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.”
-- Daniel AlarconSource : "'This American Life,' en Espanol". Interview with Ian Gordon, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.
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“How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.”
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“I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.”
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“I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.”
-- Daniel AlarconSource : "This Week in Fiction: Daniel Alarcón" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. July 21, 2013.
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“The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.”
-- Daniel AlarconSource : "The Exchange: Daniel Alarcón". Interview with Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2009.
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“At the most basic level, I appreciate writers who have something to say.”
-- Daniel AlarconSource : "Daniel Alarcón" by Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14 & 21, 2010.
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“Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.”
-- Daniel AlarconSource : "The Exchange: Daniel Alarcón" by Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2009.
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“I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.”
-- Daniel AlarconSource : "The Exchange: Daniel Alarcón" by Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2009.
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“It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art,”
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“I do feel fortunate to have some knowledge of the great Latin American writers, including some that are probably not that well known in English. Im thinking of Jose Maria Arguedas, whom I read when I was living in Lima, and who really impacted the way I viewed my country.”
-- Daniel Alarcon
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