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The most powerful speaking you can do is the speaking that comes from your heart and your love.
Sandra Cisneros
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Sandra Cisneros
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 20
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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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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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Even if you don't believe in God, you have to believe in love.
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I am one who leaves the table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate
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I think the erotic is very spiritual, and I never see that spiritual dimension when you look at collections of erotica. That's always missing for me.
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I can't do a linear novel. I'm just going to write what I need to write.
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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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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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I can't go to Hindu countries where they respect rats and mice, and I can't go camping. I don't like to go into subways, because I always see them. Rats are like my naguales [kindred animal spirits]. They follow me.
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We tend to think of orphans as being the protagonist of stories we read when we're kids, and yet here you are: you're an adult, you're supposed to manage, you're supposed to get over it, you're supposed to go on with your life, and you feel like a lost child.
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Every book takes you to the terror, that terrible place of possible failure.
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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.
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You'll change. You'll see. Wait till you meet Mr. Right.
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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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One of the books that has guided me in the last ten years of my life to help me to be that leader is the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh's Being Peace. He's a Vietnamese monk. He was nominated for a Peace Prize by Dr. Martin Luther King.
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I was interested in cross-pollinating the two. I thought there was something lovely in the little vignette forms. I wanted to explore that.
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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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Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in
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I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of Chicago.
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The thoughts of letting go of everything I love overwhelms like a tsunami of sorrow.
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