If you're poor, potato chips are the food of life for you. It's the caviar. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Sometimes hearing the stories is going to change people's lives much more than if they read it. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Even if we don't know if God exists, we can be certain love exists, because its power transcends death. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
My idea of a meal, if I was hungry, was to open a bag of potato chips. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The border between the dead and the living, if you're Mexican, doesn't exist. The dead are part of your life. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
If you live in poor neighborhoods - I know from living in several poor neighborhoods - the worst supermarkets in the city… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I've come to some balance now and calmness. If anything happened to me and I got hit by a bus - I… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Every writer I admire is my teacher. If you look at it, and if you care to read carefully enough and to… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Once you can open yourself to joy, you feel as if you've transformed your sadness into illumination, which is really all that… — 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
The border between the dead and the living, if you're Mexican, doesn't exist. The dead are part of your life. Like my… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
If we were multilingual, imagine how much you would learn about your own culture, about the sensibilities of what's important in your… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
If you have potato chips, that means, "Who's coming over?"Wealthy people - white people who're wealthy - have a bag of potato… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something .… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I think a lot of education has to be involved. If they would have alternative items, so that, say, for a dollar… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
If educators were really understanding of that, they'd say, "You know what? Forget about bilingual, we're going to do multilingual education." So… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Believe me, that nap is better than sitting there for three hours and nothing's coming. I've learned that even if I've slept… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
What I recommend is this: after you've talked to everybody, go take a nap! Take a nap. Your body really needs to… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Mice and any rodentia. Guinea pigs. Even rabbits, I can't stand. Rabbits are cousins to rats. It's a class thing. If you… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Well, when you're an immigrant writer, or an immigrant, you're not always welcome to this country unless you're the right immigrant. If… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Heartbreak makes us stronger; it's an opportunity for spiritual growth. How can you understand someone else's pain if you have not yourself… — 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
What I've learned is, if I have to go out and speak, the best way to get people's attention is to tell… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Instead of putting cheese with ranchero sauce, chile is really very good for you. If you put that in, you get flavoring,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Generally if you're a daughter in a Mexican family, no one wants to tell you anything; they tell you the healthy lies… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Even my mom. I have to tell her, "If you want a snack, don't go to bed with potato chips. Eat a… — 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… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
When I was writing Caramelo the last couple of years, a sixty-hour work week was normal. And now I'm lucky if I… — 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
Even if you're an agnostic or an atheist, you can create an altar, because an altar is simply paying homage to someone's… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I'm just as unhappy about San Antonio as I was about Chicago. If you're unhappy about certain things, you're unhappy everywhere. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I can get by and chatter and talk and tell funny stories, make people laugh, but I don't have as many words,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I realize that it's like spices in the kitchen. I need that turmeric. I'm sorry, but cinnamon isn't going to substitute .… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I was the kind of person that was very social and liked to be with an entourage and have lots of parties… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
You meditate and then you can put on your pajamas, or you can imagine you're wearing your pajamas, and you talk about… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
One of the things I used to dream of is that if I could just be funny like Red Skelton, if I… — 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
