Essays Quote by Sandra Cisneros

I may not remember the name of a book's author, but let it be clear, what I will not forget is the violence, the…

— Enrique Pena Nieto

Writing a book set in New Mexico was partially a way to express my own love for the state, and partially a way to…

— Liza Campbell

Write about the emotions you fear the most.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

I wanted to think about ways to get an American readership concerned with what is happening in Mexico, but also to reframe it as…

— Sarah Stillman

Write about what you're afraid of.

— Donald Barthelme

You have to write about what scares you.

— Michael Connelly

Write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.

— Toni Morrison

I'm not a Mexican writer, but I think everything that happens in Mexico affects the Mexican writers I know, in their sense of being…

— Francisco Goldman

“Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into its carefully chosen ranks.”

— Pat Conroy

“Every time I sit down to write, I have a great fear that anything I write will reveal me as the monster I was…

— Dorothy Allison

Think about the stories you have inside that scare you. That's what you should be writing. I and others call that writing from the…

— Leslie Pietrzyk

I read "The Conquest of New Spain" by Bernal Diz Del Castillo, which I recommend to a lot of people. He was an eyewitness…

— Laila Lalami