327 Quotes by Sandra Cisneros

If you can't fall asleep, learn how to meditate. I would recommend you listen to a beautiful tape called Spiritual Power, Spiritual Practice [Energy Evaluation Meditations For Morning and Evening, 1998]. It was the one that got me out of my writer's block when I was writing Caramelo. It's by Carolyn Myss.

When your writing is unselfconscious, when it comes from your heart, that's when it's powerful.

I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.

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.

Even if we don't know if God exists, we can be certain love exists, because its power transcends death.

In my youth, daydreaming nurtured me, provided a safe haven. I'd sleep for twelve hours and even when awake escape to the safe place in my mind.

I remember when they started publishing Latino fiction years ago. You had to be really good to get published. Now you don't have to be that good.

I'm most tired after I read, after I've just done a performance, but what I try to do is to fuel and eat a really healthy meal before I perform. I want to have enough energy to talk to that last person.

You know, we should have cards like the deaf have. "Can't talk, I'm writing today."