Sandra Cisneros Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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.”

“In the business world, I did fairly well, but wasn't happy. A bout of sciatica put me flat on my back. All I could do was read, listen to my mother's stories about the Sandovals, and daydream: a return to self. My writing career had begun.”

“My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.”

“For a writer, for the solitude to write, you don't need a room of your own, you need a house.”

“I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor translations... English from Edwardian times.”

“Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.”

“I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart.”

“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.”

“There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books don't count. We are still the illegal aliens of the literary world.”

“I liked the books I read that said things like 'I shan't'. I would try to find a way to say in my life, to reply, 'I shan't do that, mother.' That was so far away from my barrio world.”