Daniel Alarcon Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• 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

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

• 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.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Reading, Would Be, Benefits

  Source: therumpus.net

• I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Writing, Language, States

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

• 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

• 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

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