You know, you want to be outrageous when you're young, so all the young people say, "Oooh . . ." Now my tactics are different. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I prefer to go to the little towns now, because in little towns people are kind. I like going to Tepotzlán. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
There's a lot of people that need these stories, and they can't come to my book, so I'm going to be the… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Sometimes hearing the stories is going to change people's lives much more than if they read it. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I do travel a lot, because I need oxygen, I need to go to places to meet people who aren't upset at… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I think people should read fairy tales, because were hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
You get good at being by yourself and you're condemned to a life sentence of solitude. You think, "Wait a minute! I… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I can't stand it when people say, "If you're writing a novel, you should read this and that." Because it's like giving… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
My readers are as diverse as any group you will ever see. Something that booksellers always tell me. That they are always… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Afterwards, people come and say, "I felt like you said that just to me. What you said is something I'm going through… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I want to thank you, especially those people who are agnostic or atheist. I don't mean any offense by the things I… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
If you live in poor neighborhoods - I know from living in several poor neighborhoods - the worst supermarkets in the city… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I can't hang around with lots of people these days because I am hypersensitive. So when I am around a lot of… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I tell people to write the stories that you're afraid to talk about, the stories you wish you'd forget, because those have… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
There are still many writers out in the Bay, extraordinary writers like Gina Valdez, a poet who I just saw in Portland.… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
People want you to be the ambassador of everything. This happens to me especially when I go to Europe. I have to… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I was reading Emily Dickinson and Edwin Arlington Robinson, but these weren't the poets that influenced me. I think Gwendolyn Brooks influenced… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Many books that you read, they have those disclaimers that say that, "None of the events and none of the people are… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
If you have potato chips, that means, "Who's coming over?"Wealthy people - white people who're wealthy - have a bag of potato… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
A lot of people mistake the persona that I create in poetry and fiction with me. A lot of people claim to… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
People like to blame Mexican food, but look at what's happening globally, look at all the fast foods and products filled with… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
God made men by baking them in an oven, but he forgot about the first batch, and that's how Black people were… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
When I'm starting to feel, "How many more people are there?" I go slower. I ask questions, and that person engaging with… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Even though it's hard to believe, but people who know me really well know I'm shy. I have to go past that… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Some people need flowers, some people need dandelions. It's medicine, it's what you need at that time in your life. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Why don't we have people like Thich Nhat Hanh or Marshall Rosenberg and Nelson Mandela solving violent situations in a peaceful way? — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
People know when you're speaking from el corazón. You have that pain. Take that pain and do something with it. That's very… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I don't just want to talk to the choir. I want to sit down and be respectful of the people who are… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
"You're next, after the feather dancers." And you had to get their attention, because otherwise people would go, "Oh, a poet." You… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The ideal for me is to mix it up. When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I don't know what the definition of a short story is, and I don't even care to answer that question. That's something… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
What do we call our Harlem Renaissance? Maybe in the future, it won't be just Latino, maybe it'll be more multi-multi, because,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
People paused to listen to Denise Chávez and she had them - with gum on her shoes, she had them. She said… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
It's so good for your health to take those naps. I don't know why people brag that they sleep five hours. I'd… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
You know how they say, "Find your voice"? That's your voice, in your pajamas. And it doesn't mean that you're going to… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
When you have your heart broken wide, you are also open to things of beauty as well as things of sadness. Once… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
We tend to think of orphans as being the protagonist of stories we read when we're kids, and yet here you are: you're an… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share
I'm learning a lot by reading teachers like Thich Nhat Hanh, Pema Chodron. They teach me because I feel like I have a responsibility… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share
I never know what something is going to be until it emerges from the womb and you see the crown of its head and… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share
Believe it or not, Mexican cooking, for those of you who have not gone farther south than Taco Bell, uses a lot of vegetables.… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share
To this day, on my cheat days from my diet, which are New Year's Eve and my birthday, I buy luxury foods that are… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share
You can never have too much sky . You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky, and sky can keep you safe… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share
[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these things in… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share
I want to thank you, especially those people who are agnostic or atheist. I don't mean any offense by the things I said of… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share
We changed it to emocionó, the way you say in Spanish, "to emotion me" [to be moved]. That, as opposed to "haunt." We wanted… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share
When I'm starting to feel, "How many more people are there?" I go slower. I ask questions, and that person engaging with me gives… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share
I've put up with too much, too long, and now I'm just too intelligent, too powerful, too beautiful, too sure of who I am… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share
If we got an educational program going, we could tell people, "Instead of butter, use avocado." That's something we eat, it has the good… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share
I always have to have sweet and salty. I know some of you are going to say, "Oh, I tried dates. I hate them."… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share
