327 Quotes by Sandra Cisneros

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.

I was looking at a lot of experimental writers, and I was very intrigued by short-short fiction, writers who would write little things, what I call buttons now, little vignettes.

My weapon has always been language, and I've always used it, but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives now, I think they're flowers, or bridges.

There's a lot of people that need these stories, and they can't come to my book, so I'm going to be the bookmobile and I'm going to come to them.

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are.

I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin.

Even though it's hard to believe, but people who know me really well know I'm shy. I have to go past that fear.

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.