Daniel Alarcon Quotes

• The bond between parent and child is chemical, fierce, and inexplicable, even if that parent is a sworn killer. This connection cannot be measured; it at once more subtle and more powerful than science.

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  Children, Powerful, Parent

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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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  Art, Ideas, People

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• Perú es un país donde más de la mitad de la población emigraría si tuviera la oportunidad. Es decir, la mitad de la población está dispuesta a abandonar todo lo que conoce por la incertidumbre de una vida en un país extranjero, en otro idioma.

  Daniel Alarcón

  País, Tierra, Gente

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• Ask any human being alive if they're the same person they were seven years ago and they're going to tell you they aren't.

  Daniel Alarcón

  Years, Alive, Seven

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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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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  Writing, Thinking, Discipline

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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.

  Daniel Alarcón

  Names, Underdog, Band

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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 Alarcón

  Writing, School, Language

  "The Exchange: Daniel Alarcón" by Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2009.

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• Radio, or at least the kind of radio we're proposing to do, can cut through that. It can reach people who would otherwise never hear your work, and of course I find that very notion inspiring. Radio stories are powerful because the human voice is powerful. It has been and will continue to be the most basic element of storytelling. As a novelist (and I should note that working my novel is the first thing I do in the morning and the very last thing I do before I sleep), shifting into this new medium is entirely logical. It's still narrative, only with different tools.

  Daniel Alarcón

  Morning, Powerful, Sleep

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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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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  Latin, People, Fiction

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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 Alarcón

  Boys, Cups, Different

  "Daniel Alarcón" by Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14 & 21, 2010.

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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 Alarcón

  Country, Latin, Thinking

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• Radio is the medium that most closely approximates the experience of reading. As a novelist, I find it very exciting to be able to reach people who might not ever pick up one of my books, either because they can't afford it (as is often the case in Latin America), or because they just don't have the habit of reading novels.

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  Latin, Book, Reading

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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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 Alarcón

  Long, Three, Pieces

  "'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.

  Daniel Alarcón

  Jesus, Color, Two

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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 Alarcón

  Writing, Thinking, Paper

  "'This American Life,' en Espanol". Interview with Ian Gordon, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

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• I'm a believer in the benefits of translation. It's a necessity and a privilege - it would be awful to be limited to reading authors who's work was composed in the languages I happen to have learned.

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  Reading, Would Be, Benefits

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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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.

  Daniel Alarcón

  Land, Support, Emigration

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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.

  Daniel Alarcón

  Latin, Writing, Thinking

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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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  Cities, Radio, Firsts

  "This Week in Fiction: Daniel Alarcón" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. July 21, 2013.

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• Meaning can be usually be approximated, but often by sacrificing style. When I review my translations into Spanish, that's what I'm most concerned with, reading the sentences aloud in Spanish to make sure they sound the way I want them to. To be honest, I much prefer being translated into Greek or Japanese; in those cases, you have no way of being involved, and no pressure.

  Daniel Alarcón

  Reading, Sacrifice, Greek

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.

  Daniel Alarcón

  Impact, Particular, Hard

  "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 Alarcón

  Appreciate, Levels

  "Daniel Alarcón" by Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14 & 21, 2010.

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• La publicación en 'The New Yorker' lo significó todo, y no exagero si digo que cambió mi vida.

  Daniel Alarcón

  Changed, Exaggeration, Publication

  "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 Alarcón

  Writing, Language, States

  "The Exchange: Daniel Alarcón" by Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2009.

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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.

  Daniel Alarcón

  Beautiful, Book, Pages

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