327 Quotes by Sandra Cisneros

I'm afraid I'm still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece of me. I find that I have to become more and more reclusive, and pick and choose when I am public and when I am private.

You can never have too much sky.

I feel that I can teach my listener about a new word they can use too.

I think people should read fairy tales, because were hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.

Being on a highway, all that speed and aggression, is very terrifying to me.

When I was a child, I was very shy, and there's still a part of me that's very shy.

Writing is like sewing together what I call these 'buttons,' these bits and pieces.

You meditate and then you can put on your pajamas, or you can imagine you're wearing your pajamas, and you talk about your piece of writing in the language you would use if you were wearing your pajamas and you were seated at a table with your very good friend. And you wouldn't have to get all dressed up or clean up the table.