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
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
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
You know how sometimes you're talking to people who love you and give you unconditional love, and you say, "But you know… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
If you just breathe, and go slower, you will have enough energy. It's really important because there are people who wait in… — 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
I'm a witch woman--high on tobacco and holy water. I'm a woman delighted with her disasters. They give me something to do.… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I think that we need to measure how we give dollars to libraries by need. And the communities that are poor, in… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I wish somebody had told me love does not die, that we can continue to receive and give love after death. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
[Courage] always bigger than what you think you can handle, but you're never going to be given something you can't handle. So… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things… — 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
For me, a story's a story if people want to hear it; it's very much based on oral storytelling. And for me,… — 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
![“[Courage] always bigger than what you think you can handle, but you're never going to be given something you can't handle. So you say, "Okay, when you tell me what it is that I'm supposed to do, please give me the courage to do it."” quote by Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d94/sandra-cisneros-862_bigger_courage-always-bigger-than-what-you-thin_1553179.jpg)
![“[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these things in the middle that were like fables, and I loved hearing fables.” quote by Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a46/sandra-cisneros-862_borges_jorge-luis-borges-had-short-stories-and_102630.jpg)
![“We changed it to emocionó, the way you say in Spanish, "to emotion me" [to be moved]. That, as opposed to "haunt." We wanted the feeling of sadness and grief and obsession, so we used emocionó.” quote by Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8fc/sandra-cisneros-862_changed_we-changed-it-to-emocion-the-way-you-say_108295.jpg)