Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisnerosis an American writer best known for her acclaimed first novel The House on Mango Streetand her subsequent short story collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories. Her work experiments with literary forms and investigates emerging subject positions, which Cisneros herself attributes to growing up in a context of cultural hybridity and economic inequality that endowed her with unique stories to tell. She is the recipient of numerous awards including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and is...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth20 December 1954
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
The good stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going to tell you the truth.
I get so excited when I see these writers because they're extraordinary, award-winning writers that are here. To gather them and put them in one forum could only raise the bar and make San Antonio known for something memorable like literature instead of the stories that dominate San Antonio.
If I have to get off the stage, don't take it personally.
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.
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.
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.
You know, we should have cards like the deaf have. "Can't talk, I'm writing today."
I feel that I can teach my listener about a new word they can use too.
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.
I think there's some great stuff coming. I do feel that. I think we have reached our Harlem Renaissance.
You get good at being by yourself and you're condemned to a life sentence of solitude. You think, "Wait a minute! I should have been a tap dancer or something". But in my life, I feel like I take my stories to people orally.
I grew up with this kind of grocery store that caters to the poor. They serve you the worst food
When I was writing Caramelo the last couple of years, a sixty-hour work week was normal. And now I'm lucky if I have eight hours.