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You want to be able to say anything when you do your first draft, because some of that goofy stuff that you think has nothing to do with it is probably where the mother lode is.
Sandra Cisneros
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Sandra Cisneros
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 20
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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.
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My readers are as diverse as any group you will ever see. Something that booksellers always tell me. That they are always surprised at the kind of people that come to my readings. That they are such a mix of ages and colors. It looks like people spilling out of an elevator.
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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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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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A second person that's come to my life very recently, and I'm thankful for it, is Marshall Rosenberg, the founder of the Nonviolent Communication Organization. He has all these books about how we can use our language nonviolently to help create peace. He's using a lot of Buddhism too, but he's helping me to think about language.
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I'm from Chicago, so the Chicago working-class poets still mean a great deal to me.
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What do we call our Harlem Renaissance? Maybe in the future, it won't be just Latino, maybe it'll be more multi-multi, because, you know, people are such fusions now, of so many different cultures.
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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 for me, what I haven't done in the past.
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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.
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People know when you're speaking from el corazón. You have that pain. Take that pain and do something with it. That's very powerful.
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To me, the Virgen de Guadalupe is just a vessel for me to recognize my own God within myself.
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I know there are a lot of women who are afraid of driving on highways.
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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.
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Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.
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I began writing as an experimental writer.
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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 learn through listening and watching other performers that are very good, like Denise Chávez, Dorothy Allison.
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People like to blame Mexican food, but look at what's happening globally, look at all the fast foods and products filled with trans fat. Before the Mexican Revolution, a hundred years ago, people were eating what now macrobiotics tells us to eat, corn, black beans, rice. That's what people were eating - and chile peppers. That's a healthy diet.
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We women shouldn't get our driver's licenses till real late in life.
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