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Sandra Cisneros

American Author

Born: Dec 20, 1954

English Life Me Myself World You

Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar

The older I get, the more I'm conscious of ways very small things can make a change in the world. Tiny little things, but the world is made up of tiny matters, isn't it? Sandra Cisneros

Change Small Things Little Things World Made Matters Older Ways More Small Make Up Very Get Tiny Little Conscious Things

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. Sandra Cisneros

Woman Writing Power Distinctive Latina Those Give Make Am Things

'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves. Sandra Cisneros

Word White Latino Ourselves Status Status Quo Accepted Always Hispanic Person Quo Wants Used English Who Origin

Once people are not here physically, the spiritual remains. We still connect, we can communicate, we can give and receive love and forgiveness. There is love after someone dies. Sandra Cisneros

Love Forgiveness Spiritual People Communicate Once Someone Give Physically Remains Still Dies After Connect Receive Here

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. Sandra Cisneros

Respect Woman Big Mouth Young Those Silenced Silent Taking Opinion Am Bumps Big Mouth Child Being Young Woman Now Whose

I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy. Sandra Cisneros

Work Best Needs Privacy Try More Writer Self True Protecting Limitations Understand Still Than Place Which While Ever Strengths

There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books don't count. We are still the illegal aliens of the literary world. Sandra Cisneros

World Alien Our Books Latino Small Through Writers Count Talented Because Am Still Literary Illegal Illegal Aliens Many Published

The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself. Sandra Cisneros

You Yourself Speak About More Understand Languages

I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I do in English. Sandra Cisneros

Confidence Chat Parrot Feel Like Comfortable Spanish English

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. Sandra Cisneros

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. Sandra Cisneros

Me Youth Safe Place Mind Nurtured Haven Daydreaming Hours Safe Safe Haven Provided Escape Place Awake Twelve Even Sleep

All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence. Sandra Cisneros

Work Hope Christian Anderson Tales Fairy Fairy Tales Influence Influenced Shows

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

Finished Until House Influenced After Spanish Aware Street

I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart. Sandra Cisneros

My father never wanted me to be a writer. He didn't - he came to terms with it maybe two years before he died. He wanted me to be a weather girl because when I was growing up, there were very few Latinas on television, and in the early '70s when you first started seeing Latinas on TV, they would be the weather girls. Sandra Cisneros

Me You Father Girl Weather First Before Few Television TV Would Would-Be Seeing Writer Never He Terms Because Came Were Years Up Very Died Maybe Wanted Growing Growing Up Early Started Two

One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times. Sandra Cisneros

Speak Christian Favorite Anderson Writers His Times Stories

I grew up listening to the Beatles and being an ardent Beatles fan when I was in third grade all the way to adulthood, and listening to all kinds of music that came to us either at the flea market or in our living rooms or on the 'Ed Sullivan' show - all these places we were influenced by. Sandra Cisneros

Music Beatles Listening Living Sullivan Market Our Way Kinds Ardent Adulthood Ed Sullivan Came Were Up Grade Being Influenced Fan Grew Either Places Flea Rooms Us Show Third

I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists. Sandra Cisneros

Memoir Protagonists Read Sci-Fi Female Always Nonfiction Historical Chick Westerns Lit Fiction Literary Literary Fiction Dystopian Prefer Fantasy Even

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