Daniel Alarcon Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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

• 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.

• Writing an op-ed feels like I'm taking the SAT. It's so hard. It feels like homework. And if it feels like homework, it just doesn't get done.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Writing, Done, Homework

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• I write 1,000 words a day first thing in the morning but I cannot write 240 characters to describe a piece that I spent six weeks working on with a producer.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Morning, Writing, Character

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• Generally, I find that when you're writing and having fun with the writing, that energy and dynamism is going to come out in the text one way or another.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Fun, Writing, Way

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• 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.

• 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 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

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

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