Sandra Cisneros

“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?”

“Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would need another lifetime to learn it.”

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

“What's always a challenge for me is that my Spanish is not the level of my English. Nor do I read in Spanish the way I read in English.”