[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these… — 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
You meditate and then you can put on your pajamas, or you can imagine you're wearing your pajamas, and you talk about… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
My friend, Dennis Mathis, was reading Eastern European and Japanese experimental writers, and I brought the Latin American writers to his attention,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I didn't marry. I didn't have children. I followed the food supply for jobs. I kept writing at night. And that kept… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
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 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
I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I tell people to write the stories that you're afraid to talk about, the stories you wish you'd forget, because those have… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
There are still many writers out in the Bay, extraordinary writers like Gina Valdez, a poet who I just saw in Portland.… — 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
Well, when you're an immigrant writer, or an immigrant, you're not always welcome to this country unless you're the right immigrant. If… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
For a writer, for the solitude to write, you don't need a room of your own, you need a house. — 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 reading all these male writers who were doing wild and wonderful things. It gave me permission to experiment. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was accessible… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
If you can't fall asleep, learn how to meditate. I would recommend you listen to a beautiful tape called Spiritual Power, Spiritual… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Those of us who are writers and have to perform to communities that aren't used to coming to book events, I would… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All of my works are performance pieces, as is true for many writers of color, writers who have indigenous roots - because… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
You know, we should have cards like the deaf have. "Can't talk, I'm writing today." — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I was a little press writer when the National Endowment for the Arts came to my rescue and gave me an award.… — 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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