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Sandra Cisneros
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: December 20
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Essayist
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Chicago
Illinois
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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 funniest book I've ever written, it was the saddest period of my life.
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I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I do in English.
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Perhaps the community you mentioned might not come to the story. Sometimes you have to take the story to them, and perform it, and that's another way that I get an alternate point of view that isn't the official version of history out to a community. I feel that's what I've been doing since Caramelo.
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My Spanish is a daughter's Spanish. I write, but my Spanish really is very limited.
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If you live in poor neighborhoods - I know from living in several poor neighborhoods - the worst supermarkets in the city are in the poorest neighborhoods, where people don't have cars.
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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.
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One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent.
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I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin.
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The most powerful speaking you can do is the speaking that comes from your heart and your love.
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I had no concept of this [healthy food] until very, very late in life, thanks to a trainer/nutritionist that I met who has been working with me since I was forty-five.
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My mom was a frustrated woman, like so many unhappy women who didn't get the opportunities they wanted.
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Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in
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When we started publishing, you had to be better than good. You had to be excellent. But as long as people are reading, I don't care what they're reading.
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I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.
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You'll change. You'll see. Wait till you meet Mr. Right.
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Post 9/11, we've seen such disastrous policies on the border. I live two and a half hours away from the border, and I've seen changes for the communities there. I feel like it's an occupied zone. We're losing our rights, and both sides of the border are terrified. The Mexican population and the U.S. population are united in fear.
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Even if you don't believe in God, you have to believe in love.
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Everything that I write comes when it wants to, out of its own need and it dictates its form. I don't say, I am going to write a novel.
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My book would come out in one language, then it would come out in another language, then it would come out in One City, One Read, and I was always being called away from my desk.
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The border between the dead and the living, if you're Mexican, doesn't exist. The dead are part of your life.
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