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
I was interested in cross-pollinating the two. I thought there was something lovely in the little vignette forms. I wanted to explore… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Mom used to walk with me for something like two or three miles to get to the day-old bakery. They had those… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I live in a town that's two and a half hours from the border. I know people who have lived in San… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Post 9/11, we've seen such disastrous policies on the border. I live two and a half hours away from the border, and… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
So how are you supposed to learn how to drive with this guy yapping at you? My brothers were the ones who… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
My father never wanted me to be a writer. He didn't - he came to terms with it maybe two years before… — 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
I just feel that the East and the West are two different worlds. I sometimes get saddened when I see that very… — 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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