Daniel Alarcon

A novel is like an animal you have to hunt down and kill. If you let it sit for two days, it's…

— Daniel Alarcon

I love to walk through the streets of Jesus Maria and Pueblo Libre. The Spanish colonial buildings are in bright colors, two…

— Daniel Alarcon

“They spoke without much fluency about a minor universe of events that affected neither of them: the vagaries of neighborhood life, people…

— Daniel Alarcón

I guess in my own life I don't really think much about manliness too much. I feel like a lot of men…

— Daniel Alarcon

I want people to read good work. If I see someone reading a book by Lorrie Moore or Jennifer Egan, I'm psyched.…

— Daniel Alarcon

“And what does he feel?" "He feels uneasy. A little afaid. Angry. Oddly, a hint of pride." "Good," Henry said. "ANd where…

— Daniel Alarcón

How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support…

— Daniel Alarcon

Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller, whose gifts are displayed on every page of this beautiful, daring, and deeply humane book.

— Daniel Alarcon

As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasnt made the World Cup since 1982, so I…

— Daniel Alarcon

Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.

— Daniel Alarcon

I have a love/hate relationship with the internet. It's obviously the central tool of how I work, and how I keep in…

— Daniel Alarcon

Radio is the medium that most closely approximates the experience of reading. As a novelist, I find it very exciting to be…

— Daniel Alarcon

I do feel fortunate to have some knowledge of the great Latin American writers, including some that are probably not that well…

— Daniel Alarcon

“He admired this too: their ability to preserve joy at any cost, the way prehistoric man might have preserved fire.”

— Daniel Alarcón

I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write.…

— Daniel Alarcon

I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.

— Daniel Alarcon

“The city was lovely. There could be no place in the world to which he belonged so completely. That was why he'd…

— Daniel Alarcón

When I was younger, I was able to write with music playing in the background, but these days, I can't. I find…

— Daniel Alarcon

I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so…

— Daniel Alarcon

A lot of attention has been paid in Latin America to the new generation of nonfiction writers, authors like Julio Villanueva Chang,…

— Daniel Alarcon

I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.

— Daniel Alarcon

“Memory is a great deceiver, grief and longing cloud the past, and recollections, even vivid ones, fade.”

— Daniel Alarcón

“Nepotism is the lowest and least imaginative form of corruption.”

— Daniel Alarcón

What I'm most interested in is not necessarily the wound, but the scar. Not how someone is wounded, but what the scar…

— Daniel Alarcon

There are stories that are by and for Latin Americans, where a certain amount of cultural fluency is expected, where we can…

— Daniel Alarcon