Writer Quotes by Sandra Cisneros

When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me.

— Sandra Cisneros

We have all this courage as writers, but then there's this fear.

— Sandra Cisneros

I think of reading as like a medicine cabinet.

— Sandra Cisneros

I began writing as an experimental writer.

— Sandra Cisneros

I can't do a linear novel. I'm just going to write what I need to write.

— Sandra Cisneros

If you're going to write about the river, you've got to get in.

— Sandra Cisneros

Writing is like sewing together what I call these 'buttons,' these bits and pieces.

— 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

You have to remember that writing itself is so solitary. You start writing because you're lonely.

— Sandra Cisneros

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

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

It's difficult for me to have a large story, a very large story - a novel is a large story. I'm used…

— Sandra Cisneros

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

— Sandra Cisneros

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

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

That's all you have to ask from yourself writing a book. That it's the best you can do and that you did…

— 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

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something .…

— Sandra Cisneros

I am not in touch with other writers. I don't have very much contact with other writers. I don't get invited to…

— 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

I didn't intend to be writing - the writer's life. I was just writing what came to me at the time, but…

— Sandra Cisneros

The ability to be present with every single person and engage was a great model for me of the work that a…

— Sandra Cisneros

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

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 remember I was very taken with a book called DreamTigers by [Jorge Luis] Borges. He was at the University of Texas,…

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One of the things we learned from that panel is the way poor communities use a library is very different from wealthy…

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

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My idea was always to start with a small press and then move up to a national press. I had those goals…

— 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

[Writing is like fishing]. You don't bow because you made the fish. That's the difference. If you know that, then you bow…

— Sandra Cisneros

We need to write because so many of our stories are not being heard. Where could they be heard in this era…

— Sandra Cisneros

When your writing is unselfconscious, when it comes from your heart, that's when it's powerful.

— Sandra Cisneros

I hope I'm not just looked as a writer that is popular but as a writer of literary value.

— Sandra Cisneros

That's what you need for your writing - to learn how to be present, learn how to be calm. So take that…

— Sandra Cisneros

Books are medicine and you have to take the right medicine that you need at that moment or that day or that…

— Sandra Cisneros

For a writer, for the solitude to write, you don't need a room of your own, you need a house.

— Sandra Cisneros

I felt a failure because I couldn't sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jobs were what mattered,…

— Sandra Cisneros

I don't want to blame anybody, but I just want to tell you that the process of writing is antisocial, so on…

— Sandra Cisneros

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

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

— Sandra Cisneros