Writing Quotes by Sandra Cisneros

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

— Sandra Cisneros

Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.

— Sandra Cisneros

Write about what makes you different.

— 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

I was reading all these male writers who were doing wild and wonderful things. It gave me permission to experiment.

— Sandra Cisneros

My Spanish is a daughter's Spanish. I write, but my Spanish really is very limited.

— Sandra Cisneros

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

— Sandra Cisneros

All of my works are performance pieces, as is true for many writers of color, writers who have indigenous roots - because…

— Sandra Cisneros

Each book gets harder, each book gets harder and harder. I always feel like crying when I have to write.

— Sandra Cisneros

One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.

— 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

Every writer I admire is my teacher. If you look at it, and if you care to read carefully enough and to…

— Sandra Cisneros

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

There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books don't count.…

— Sandra Cisneros

Every book changes my writing because I'm always trying to do something I didn't do before. I try to do what's hard…

— 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 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

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

— Sandra Cisneros

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

— Sandra Cisneros

There are still many writers out in the Bay, extraordinary writers like Gina Valdez, a poet who I just saw in Portland.…

— Sandra Cisneros

I learned from the Macarturos. I had never been at a table with a labor organizer and a playwright and a performance…

— Sandra Cisneros

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

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

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

I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was accessible…

— 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

I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things…

— Sandra Cisneros

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

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

— Sandra Cisneros

When I was writing Caramelo the last couple of years, a sixty-hour work week was normal. And now I'm lucky if I…

— 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

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

— Sandra Cisneros

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

You know, we should have cards like the deaf have. "Can't talk, I'm writing today."

— Sandra Cisneros