Sandra Cisneros Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I was reading Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks, and I'm still very, very deeply moved by Gwendolyn Brooks's life and her work.
I'm just as unhappy about San Antonio as I was about Chicago. If you're unhappy about certain things, you're unhappy everywhere.
All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence.
My father always defined my gender to my brothers. He'd say, 'This is your sister; you must take care of her.'
I want to write an essay called "Fear of Mexico," because I always feel like Mexico's this lover that never writes to me.
I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I do in English.
When I was very young I was reading a lot of Latin American fiction, which later would be called "boom fiction."
Why don't we have people like Thich Nhat Hanh or Marshall Rosenberg and Nelson Mandela solving violent situations in a peaceful way?
If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting.
I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things that give my writing power.
Even my mom. I have to tell her, "If you want a snack, don't go to bed with potato chips. Eat a handful of pistachios and a handful of dates."
That's why it's important to be multilingual, because it teaches you so much about your own language.
I do travel a lot, because I need oxygen, I need to go to places to meet people who aren't upset at me because I'm asking for peace.
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 very indicative of my class.
I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.
The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.
You don't want somebody who doesn't know his own heart, do you? You'll find someone who's brave enough to love you. Someday. One day. Not today.
The truth has a strange way of following you, of coming up to you and making you listen to what it has to say.
What's always a challenge for me is that my Spanish is not the level of my English. Nor do I read in Spanish the way I read in English.
In English, my name means hope. In Spanish, it means too many letters. It means sadness. It means waiting. It is like the number nine, a muddy color.
I wish somebody had told me love does not die, that we can continue to receive and give love after death.
To tell you the truth, I think it's about that we shouldn't get our driver's licenses till real late in life.
Some people need flowers, some people need dandelions. It's medicine, it's what you need at that time in your life.
There was a time when I used to go to Mexico every year. But then Mexico changed a lot - between 1995 and 2005, Mexico changed a lot.
I think that you need to have books that talk about the lives of the poor, and they need to be involved - involved in acquisitions.
Even if we don't know if God exists, we can be certain love exists, because its power transcends death.
I have to say that the traditional role is kind of a myth. I think the traditional Mexican woman is a fierce woman.
Even though it's hard to believe, but people who know me really well know I'm shy. I have to go past that fear.
I think there's some great stuff coming. I do feel that. I think we have reached our Harlem Renaissance.
Heartbreak makes us stronger; it's an opportunity for spiritual growth. How can you understand someone else's pain if you have not yourself suffered?
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 me energy.
I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity.
Books are medicine and you have to take the right medicine that you need at that moment or that day or that time in your life.
My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.
Those of us who are writers and have to perform to communities that aren't used to coming to book events, I would recommend taking some theater.
That's what you need for your writing - to learn how to be present, learn how to be calm. So take that nap, do that meditation.
In my youth, daydreaming nurtured me, provided a safe haven. I'd sleep for twelve hours and even when awake escape to the safe place in my mind.
I don't really think our government at heart wants peace. So I urge you, write to Mrs. Laura Bush, because she reads.
I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor translations ... English from Edwardian times.
Generally if you're a daughter in a Mexican family, no one wants to tell you anything; they tell you the healthy lies about your family.
I was reading all these male writers who were doing wild and wonderful things. It gave me permission to experiment.
You know, you want to be outrageous when you're young, so all the young people say, "Oooh ... " Now my tactics are different.
Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.
One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent.
I know the books that I need to help me to be wiser than my years and be kinder and more compassionate and more patient than I really am.
I feel the fear touches on something deeper. A sense perhaps of, "My life is speeding past me and I can't get a handle on it."
When I was writing Caramelo the last couple of years, a sixty-hour work week was normal. And now I'm lucky if I have eight hours.
I was so happy when I went to Rome and I saw that the Romans eat them too, the squash blossoms. No wonder I like the Italians!