Thinking Quotes by Sandra Cisneros

I would drive on streets that were one-way and think, "Why are they all honking at me?"

— Sandra Cisneros

I think there's a rule that once you want to live somewhere, you can't find a job.

— Sandra Cisneros

I think of reading as like a medicine cabinet.

— Sandra Cisneros

I think diseases have no eyes. They pick with a dizzy finger anyone, just anyone.

— Sandra Cisneros

Mexicans don't think of ghosts as haunting you.

— Sandra Cisneros

I think that you need to have books that talk about the lives of the poor, and they need to be involved…

— Sandra Cisneros

I think the erotic is very spiritual, and I never see that spiritual dimension when you look at collections of erotica. That's…

— Sandra Cisneros

To tell you the truth, I think it's about that we shouldn't get our driver's licenses till real late in life.

— Sandra Cisneros

I think there's some great stuff coming. I do feel that. I think we have reached our Harlem Renaissance.

— Sandra Cisneros

Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.

— Sandra Cisneros

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

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

My weapon has always been language, and I've always used it, but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives…

— Sandra Cisneros

I don't just want to talk to the choir. I want to sit down and be respectful of the people who are…

— Sandra Cisneros

Your prospective employer, or the person you have a crush on, or the person you want to talk to. You're judging yourself,…

— Sandra Cisneros

I think a lot of education has to be involved. If they would have alternative items, so that, say, for a dollar…

— Sandra Cisneros

Many books that you read, they have those disclaimers that say that, "None of the events and none of the people are…

— Sandra Cisneros

I think one of the great primordial fears we have once we become conscious of our aloneness as children is the fear…

— Sandra Cisneros

Spanish is a poetic language, in particular the Spanish of Mexico which has a wonderful animistic attitude you might not see in…

— Sandra Cisneros

I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and…

— Sandra Cisneros

I think I didn't know what I was creating, as much as I knew what I didn't want to do. And I…

— Sandra Cisneros

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

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

Imagine Americans who go to Paris. Why would you want to go where someone's going to disparage you? Why would you go…

— Sandra Cisneros

People want you to be the ambassador of everything. This happens to me especially when I go to Europe. I have to…

— Sandra Cisneros

It takes a long time for women to feel it's alright to be chingona. To aspire to be a chingona!...You are saying,…

— Sandra Cisneros

If you start thinking about who's going to read it [you're writing], or what grade will you get, or is it going…

— Sandra Cisneros

I know the American Library Association has models for working with the poor. They do have that, and I think that we…

— Sandra Cisneros

Something I always tell students is, when you're writing something, you want to write the first draft and you want it to…

— Sandra Cisneros

You want to be able to say anything when you do your first draft, because some of that goofy stuff that you…

— Sandra Cisneros

I have to say that the traditional role is kind of a myth. I think the traditional Mexican woman is a fierce…

— Sandra Cisneros

I don't really think our government at heart wants peace. So I urge you, write to Mrs. Laura Bush, because she reads.

— Sandra Cisneros

I think that we need to measure how we give dollars to libraries by need. And the communities that are poor, in…

— Sandra Cisneros

I think people should read fairy tales, because were hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

— Sandra Cisneros

I like to think about the bestseller list as, "This is the medicine cabinet of a very sick country." Let me look…

— Sandra Cisneros

I think no matter what you do you can't please everybody. You have to ask yourself, "Did I do what I set…

— Sandra Cisneros

What you're going to be asked to do is bigger than what you think you can do. It's always bigger than what…

— Sandra Cisneros

I also learned to tell a story. I think I learned from poetry how to time a story. Poetry's timing, beats and…

— Sandra Cisneros

You get good at being by yourself and you're condemned to a life sentence of solitude. You think, "Wait a minute! I…

— Sandra Cisneros

There are two things you need to ask for, to open up that channel, so you get the light. One is humility,…

— Sandra Cisneros