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I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are going to be very different than what you'll get from a poet.
Sandra Cisneros
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Sandra Cisneros
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 20
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What you're going to be asked to do is bigger than what you think you can do. It's always bigger than what you think you can handle, but you're never going to be given something you can't handle.
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You know, if you've got nine people that you've got to get a treat for - because you do have sweet food, even if you're poor - you can't go out and buy a Sara Lee cake. You buy the big bag of cookies, those chocolate and vanilla ones with the icing. That has a lot of trans fat in it, but it goes a long way with a lot of people.
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The thoughts of letting go of everything I love overwhelms like a tsunami of sorrow.
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Every book takes you to the terror, that terrible place of possible failure.
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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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If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting.
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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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One way to get very humble is to dedicate the work you're going to do to your community.
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Believe it or not, Mexican cooking, for those of you who have not gone farther south than Taco Bell, uses a lot of vegetables. But those vegetables were not brought here, like corn mushrooms, huitlacoche, or squash blossoms.
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The writer Denise Chávez comments on poor food and what you associate with luxury food items. In fact, she wrote a whole book called A Taco Testimony, and though the title sounds light, it's a heavy book. It's about being working class and what kind of food is available to you that's cheap.
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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.
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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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I was reading all these male writers who were doing wild and wonderful things. It gave me permission to experiment.
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You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are.
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Believe me, that nap is better than sitting there for three hours and nothing's coming. I've learned that even if I've slept nine hours and I just finished breakfast, if I feel sleepy when I'm in front of that computer, I'll take a nap. And it really does help.
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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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There's no perfect place, there's no wonderful utopia.
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The ideal for me is to mix it up. When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are anthropologists and people who are poking around in other fields, I like to have them all in the same workshop, and not worry about genre.
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I also learned to tell a story. I think I learned from poetry how to time a story. Poetry's timing, beats and pauses. That white space on the page is as important as the black. The bottom of the page is blackout. It's performance.
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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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