Sandra Cisneros

I believe love is always eternal. Even if eternity is only five minutes.

— Sandra Cisneros

The stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going to…

— Sandra Cisneros

There's all kinds of ways to wean yourself off of sugar - because it is like an addiction.

— Sandra Cisneros

I can't do a linear novel. I'm just going to write what I need to write.

— Sandra Cisneros

My idea of a meal, if I was hungry, was to open a bag of potato chips.

— Sandra Cisneros

To me, the Virgen de Guadalupe is just a vessel for me to recognize my own God within myself.

— Sandra Cisneros

Even if we don't know if God exists, we can be certain love exists, because its power transcends death.

— Sandra Cisneros

When your writing is unselfconscious, when it comes from your heart, that's when it's powerful.

— Sandra Cisneros

The TSA tears through your bags at the airport and the NSA watches what books you buy and what you say over…

— Sandra Cisneros

I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are…

— Sandra Cisneros

If you live in poor neighborhoods - I know from living in several poor neighborhoods - the worst supermarkets in the city…

— Sandra Cisneros

I usually meditate and I call my spirit allies - anyone in the spirit world that I've got connections with. Even in…

— Sandra Cisneros

In English, my name means hope. In Spanish, it means too many letters. It means sadness. It means waiting. It is like…

— Sandra Cisneros

You can try reading books that will help you be a leader, like Marshall Rosenberg and Thich Nhat Hanh. Be very humble…

— Sandra Cisneros

I don't think I'll write a large novel again because it was like being in jail for me. Even though that's the…

— Sandra Cisneros

The comments you'll get from a filmmaker about your performance are going to be very different. My writing workshop is about mixing…

— Sandra Cisneros

You can never have too much sky . You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky, and sky can keep…

— Sandra Cisneros

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something .…

— Sandra Cisneros

One way to get very humble is to dedicate the work you're going to do to your community. And by community I…

— Sandra Cisneros

We can have our hearts broken over so much more. It is important to recognize the full spectrum of heartbreak. We can…

— Sandra Cisneros

When you edit, you imagine your enemy is seated on the other side of the table. Your enemy! And your enemy is…

— Sandra Cisneros

If we got an educational program going, we could tell people, "Instead of butter, use avocado." That's something we eat, it has…

— Sandra Cisneros

I am not in touch with other writers. I don't have very much contact with other writers. I don't get invited to…

— Sandra Cisneros

When I was at home, I wasn't shy. I was the clown at home, because I was loved. It was in the…

— Sandra Cisneros

I hope I'm not just looked as a writer that is popular but as a writer of literary value.

— Sandra Cisneros

You were given that pain and that vision because you have something to do with it.

— Sandra Cisneros

Like all guests, after a fortnight, grief is best beyond the door.

— Sandra Cisneros

The most powerful speaking you can do is the speaking that comes from your heart and your love.

— Sandra Cisneros

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

I want to know how love can grow irrevocable and prove the fable true.A love exists that gives. And won't take back…

— Sandra Cisneros

I find myself using Spanish words much more now that I'm older, and I guess I have the authority to do it…

— Sandra Cisneros

The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself. It's like being blind. You aren't less of a person,…

— Sandra Cisneros

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

In my youth, daydreaming nurtured me, provided a safe haven. I'd sleep for twelve hours and even when awake escape to the…

— Sandra Cisneros

I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I…

— Sandra Cisneros

I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a…

— Sandra Cisneros

Believe it or not, Mexican cooking, for those of you who have not gone farther south than Taco Bell, uses a lot…

— Sandra Cisneros

I think that Mexican-American kids live in a global world. It's not even bi-, it's multi-. You know, for those of us…

— Sandra Cisneros

I've come to some balance now and calmness. If anything happened to me and I got hit by a bus - I…

— Sandra Cisneros

Your prospective employer, or the person you have a crush on, or the person you want to talk to. You're judging yourself,…

— Sandra Cisneros