"I think I'm an American writer writing about……" — Daniel Alarcon
"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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15 Quotes by Daniel Alarcon
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Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller, whose gifts are displayed on every page of this beautiful, daring, and deeply humane…
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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…
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I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
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Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.
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At the most basic level, I appreciate writers who have something to say.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.
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How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and…
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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…
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I love to walk through the streets of Jesus Maria and Pueblo Libre. The Spanish colonial buildings are in bright…
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I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.
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I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to…
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