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
The comments you'll get from a filmmaker about your performance are going to be very different. My writing workshop is about mixing… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are… — 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
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 have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as… — 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
The older you get, the more power you have with language as a writer, which means that you have to be extra… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are anthropologists and people who are poking around in other… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
We need to write because so many of our stories are not being heard. Where could they be heard in this era… — 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
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
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
I learned from the Macarturos. I had never been at a table with a labor organizer and a playwright and a performance… — 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 felt a failure because I couldn't sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jobs were what mattered,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The writer Denise Chávez comments on poor food and what you associate with luxury food items. In fact, she wrote a whole… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I was looking at a lot of experimental writers, and I was very intrigued by short-short fiction, writers who would write little… — 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 don't want to blame anybody, but I just want to tell you that the process of writing is antisocial, so on… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
You have to remember that writing itself is so solitary. You start writing because you're lonely. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
My Spanish is a daughter's Spanish. I write, but my Spanish really is very limited. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Writing is like sewing together what I call these 'buttons,' these bits and pieces. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I can't do a linear novel. I'm just going to write what I need to write. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For me, a story's a story if people want to hear it; it's very much based on oral storytelling. And for me,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The ideal for me is to mix it up. When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
In the business world, I did fairly well, but wasn't happy. A bout of sciatica put me flat on my back. All… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I lose things. I write things and they disappear from my desk, my life. I move a lot. I wanted to gather… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
[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 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
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 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
![“If you can't fall asleep, learn how to meditate. I would recommend you listen to a beautiful tape called Spiritual Power, Spiritual Practice [Energy Evaluation Meditations For Morning and Evening, 1998]. It was the one that got me out of my writer's block when I was writing Caramelo. It's by…” quote by Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/00c/sandra-cisneros-862_beautiful_if-you-can-t-fall-asleep-learn-how-to-me_1143879.jpg)
![“[Writing is like fishing]. You don't bow because you made the fish. That's the difference. If you know that, then you bow for your labor.You crafted, you worked, you put in those hours so that you could catch that fish. But you didn't make that fish. You just caught the fish. That will help you…” quote by Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/435/sandra-cisneros-862_bows_writing-is-like-fishing-you-don-t-bow-be_3194134.jpg)
![“If you start thinking about who's going to read it [you're writing], or what grade will you get, or is it going to win that award, or are you going to get into this graduate program, you're blocking the light, and the light is that guidance and love we get when we open up our hearts and are guided…” quote by Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/df6/sandra-cisneros-862_and-love_if-you-start-thinking-about-who-s-going_2977405.jpg)
![“[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these things in the middle that were like fables, and I loved hearing fables.” quote by Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a46/sandra-cisneros-862_borges_jorge-luis-borges-had-short-stories-and_102630.jpg)
![“We changed it to emocionó, the way you say in Spanish, "to emotion me" [to be moved]. That, as opposed to "haunt." We wanted the feeling of sadness and grief and obsession, so we used emocionó.” quote by Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8fc/sandra-cisneros-862_changed_we-changed-it-to-emocion-the-way-you-say_108295.jpg)
