327 Quotes by Sandra Cisneros

I wasn't aware that 'House on Mango Street' was so influenced by Spanish until after I finished.

I didn't intend to be writing - the writer's life. I was just writing what came to me at the time, but it is a map of how this writer had to break many barriers to find, not a room of her own, but a house of her own.

I've come to some balance now and calmness. If anything happened to me and I got hit by a bus - I hope this doesn't happen, but if something happened - my body of work is something I could rest on. I don't feel, "Oh God, I have to hurry up . . ."

The devil knows more from experience than from being the devil

Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.

Afterwards, people come and say, "I felt like you said that just to me. What you said is something I'm going through right now," so you know that spiritual connection is going on.

When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me.

Even my mom. I have to tell her, "If you want a snack, don't go to bed with potato chips. Eat a handful of pistachios and a handful of dates."

I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things that give my writing power.