Daniel Alarcon famous quotes

03-16-2025

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

#Beautiful #Book #Pages
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 Alarcon

#Boys #Different #World
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.
-- Daniel Alarcon

#Latin #People #Fiction
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 Alarcon

#Writing #School #Language
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.
-- Daniel Alarcon

#Country #Land #People
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.
-- Daniel Alarcon

#Names #Underdog #Band
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.
-- Daniel Alarcon

#Writing #Thinking #Discipline
I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.
-- Daniel Alarcon

#Long #Three #Pieces
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.
-- Daniel Alarcon

#Jesus #Color #Two
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 Alarcon

#Writing #Thinking #Paper
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.
-- Daniel Alarcon

#Land #Support #Emigration
I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
-- Daniel Alarcon

#Latin #Writing #Thinking
I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.
-- Daniel Alarcon

#Cities #Radio #Firsts
The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
-- Daniel Alarcon

#Impact #Particular
At the most basic level, I appreciate writers who have something to say.
-- Daniel Alarcon

#Appreciate #Levels
Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.
-- Daniel Alarcon

#Changed #Exaggeration #Changed My Life
I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
-- Daniel Alarcon

#Writing #Language #States
It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art,
-- Daniel Alarcon

#Art #Ideas #People
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

#Country #Latin #Thinking

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