Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisnerosis an American writer best known for her acclaimed first novel The House on Mango Streetand her subsequent short story collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories. Her work experiments with literary forms and investigates emerging subject positions, which Cisneros herself attributes to growing up in a context of cultural hybridity and economic inequality that endowed her with unique stories to tell. She is the recipient of numerous awards including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and is...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth20 December 1954
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
If I have to get off the stage, don't take it personally.
The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other people's eyes. All good books do this.
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.
I remember when they started publishing Latino fiction years ago. You had to be really good to get published. Now you don't have to be that good.
You know, we should have cards like the deaf have. "Can't talk, I'm writing today."
I feel that I can teach my listener about a new word they can use too.
Being on a highway, all that speed and aggression, is very terrifying to me.
When I was a child, I was very shy, and there's still a part of me that's very shy.
You get good at being by yourself and you're condemned to a life sentence of solitude. You think, "Wait a minute! I should have been a tap dancer or something". But in my life, I feel like I take my stories to people orally.
I grew up with this kind of grocery store that caters to the poor. They serve you the worst food
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.
Why don't we have people like Thich Nhat Hanh or Marshall Rosenberg and Nelson Mandela solving violent situations in a peaceful way?
I've come to some balance now and calmness. If anything happened to me and I got hit by a bus - I hope this doesn't happen, but if something happened - my body of work is something I could rest on. I don't feel, "Oh God, I have to hurry up . . ."
Afterwards, people come and say, "I felt like you said that just to me. What you said is something I'm going through right now," so you know that spiritual connection is going on.