"…I have discovered that plays are easier to write than novels if the writer has a certain verbal facility, a certain capacity for the colloquial, an ear for the secret cadences of the spoken word. A play can be written with more ease than a novel…"
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Novelists from the United StatesEssayists from the United StatesShort story writers from the United StatesPeople from Puerto RicoHispanic Americans
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On plays versus novels in “Luis Rafael Sánchez: Counterpoints" (Sargasso, 1984)
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