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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.
Sandra Cisneros
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Sandra Cisneros
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 20
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My Spanish is a daughter's Spanish. I write, but my Spanish really is very limited.
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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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I am one who leaves the table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate
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San Antonio drives me crazy, but Chicago drives me crazy in a different way.
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I think I didn't know what I was creating, as much as I knew what I didn't want to do. And I didn't want my mother's life. She was an unhappy, frustrated artist who always dreamed of a life that was never going to be hers.
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But I deal with this by meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.
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I live in a town that's two and a half hours from the border. I know people who have lived in San Antonio for generations, sometimes seven generations, their families are from there, and they are of Mexican descent, and they've never gone farther than the border.
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You don't have to be the specialist on everything. You can try to inform yourself.
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