I never know what something is going to be until it emerges from the womb and you see the crown of its… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
One of the things we learned from that panel is the way poor communities use a library is very different from wealthy… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
My friend, Dennis Mathis, was reading Eastern European and Japanese experimental writers, and I brought the Latin American writers to his attention,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
We are told by media - books, television, reality shows - that heartbreak is this terrible thing and yet we should seek… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
[Thich Nhat Hanh] the one that revolutionized Buddhism. Instead of being monks just engaged in meditation, it was active Buddhism. You went… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My idea was always to start with a small press and then move up to a national press. I had those goals… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Those of us who are writers and have to perform to communities that aren't used to coming to book events, I would… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
My book would come out in one language, then it would come out in another language, then it would come out in… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I know the books that I need to help me to be wiser than my years and be kinder and more compassionate… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The writer Denise Chávez comments on poor food and what you associate with luxury food items. In fact, she wrote a whole… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Think about the books that you were reading at a certain crisis in your life, what you were reading, and that's because… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I think that you need to have books that talk about the lives of the poor, and they need to be involved… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
A second person that's come to my life very recently, and I'm thankful for it, is Marshall Rosenberg, the founder of the… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
You can try reading books that will help you be a leader, like Marshall Rosenberg and Thich Nhat Hanh. Be very humble… — 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
There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books don't count.… — 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
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
That's all you have to ask from yourself writing a book. That it's the best you can do and that you did… — 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
I remember I was very taken with a book called DreamTigers by [Jorge Luis] Borges. He was at the University of Texas,… — 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
Each book gets harder, each book gets harder and harder. I always feel like crying when I have to write. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I feel that I can teach my listener about a new word they can use too. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Now I feel life is really short and I have to take care of things. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
[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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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