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.
• It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art,
• I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
• Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.
• At the most basic level, I appreciate writers who have something to say.
• The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
• I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.
• I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
• How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in…
• 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…
• 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…
• I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.
• 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…
• 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,'…
• When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not…

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