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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 21 quotes by Daniel Alarcon Daniel Alarcón (born 1977 in Lima, Peru) is an American author who lives in San Francisco, California; he has been a Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College and a Visiting Writer at California College of the Arts. In Spring 2013, he was a Visiting Scholar at the UC Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program. Daniel Alarcón’s work has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, Granta, Virginia Quarterly Review and elsewhere, and... Read full biography of Daniel Alarcon → 1 2 Ctrl → 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... → 0 Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. That's half the population that is willing to abandon... → 0 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.... → 0 I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never know where it's going to take you. 0 Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based on laws of physics that you don't... → 0 For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good... → 0 As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something... → 0 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... → 0 When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not... → 0 When I was younger, I was able to write with music playing in the background, but these days, I can't. I find it distracting. Even when the music... → 0 How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support... → 0 At the most basic level, I appreciate writers who have something to say. 0 I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru. 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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