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
I want to thank you, especially those people who are agnostic or atheist. I don't mean any offense by the things I… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't know what the definition of a short story is, and I don't even care to answer that question. That's something… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
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 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
People want you to be the ambassador of everything. This happens to me especially when I go to Europe. I have to… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I have to get my will in order. I have to get the Macondo Foundation going. I want to invest the money… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I was one of those people raised by a woman who was what I call a prisoner of war. She was captured,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I want to write an essay called "Fear of Mexico," because I always feel like Mexico's this lover that never writes to… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Get yourself empty in the Eastern sense. Not in the Western sense. In the Western sense when we feel empty we feel… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I look at Thich Nhat Hanh and I look at Marshall Rosenberg, and they're more concerned about the long range. And that… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
You know, you want to be outrageous when you're young, so all the young people say, "Oooh . . ." Now my tactics are different. — 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
The stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going to… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I think there's a rule that once you want to live somewhere, you can't find a job. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Everything is holding its breath inside me. Everything is waiting to explode like Christmas. I want to be all new and shiny.… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
When I was at home, I wasn't shy. I was the clown at home, because I was loved. It was in the… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You don't want somebody who doesn't know his own heart, do you? You'll find someone who's brave enough to love you. Someday.… — 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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