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
I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists. — 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
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
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
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 are a few of the authors that I think have made a great big impact on my life. The way I… — 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
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
Everything that I write comes when it wants to, out of its own need and it dictates its form. I don't say,… — 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
We need to write because so many of our stories are not being heard. Where could they be heard in this era… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I can't do a linear novel. I'm just going to write what I need to write. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
It's difficult for me to have a large story, a very large story - a novel is a large story. I'm used… — 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
I liked the books I read that said things like 'I shan't'. I would try to find a way to say in… — 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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