One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Every book changes my writing because I'm always trying to do something I didn't do before. I try to do what's hard… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Books are medicine and you have to take the right medicine that you need at that moment or that day or that… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The experience taught me to be present in the real Buddhist sense of paying attention to the moment. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor translations... English from Edwardian times. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
There was a time when I used to go to Mexico every year. But then Mexico changed a lot - between 1995… — 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
I didn't intend to be writing - the writer's life. I was just writing what came to me at the time, but… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I was a terrible student. Still, I managed to get into college, but my daydreaming threatened to sabotage me. I used behavior… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do… — 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
And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Packing is important because a lot of times I have to go places where I have to be in four different climates… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
One of the things I like to pack, that I take with me all the time, is my Virgensita de Guadalupe. It… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I feel like I am in a box of bees when I am in a room with lots of people and I'm… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I think people are much more concerned about money now. There aren't the big advances of the past. You feel the sense… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
It takes a long time for women to feel it's alright to be chingona. To aspire to be a chingona!...You are saying,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
In the past I was very open and very generous, and I found that it just exploded in my face. A lot… — 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
