I do travel a lot, because I need oxygen, I need to go to places to meet people who aren't upset at… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me. — 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
Some people need flowers, some people need dandelions. It's medicine, it's what you need at that time in your life. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
That's what you need for your writing - to learn how to be present, learn how to be calm. So take that… — 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
I can't do a linear novel. I'm just going to write what I need to write. — 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
I usually meditate and I call my spirit allies - anyone in the spirit world that I've got connections with. Even in… — 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
The ability to be present with every single person and engage was a great model for me of the work that a… — 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
I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and… — 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
Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Before you speak, get very quiet, do the meditation, say, "Use me as a channel for what needs to get said to… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
There are two things you need to ask for, to open up that channel, so you get the light. One is humility,… — 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
I think that it's not enough to do the little Band-Aid things of having celebrities come and read to children. Not that… — 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
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
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 know the American Library Association has models for working with the poor. They do have that, and I think that we… — 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
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
