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You can never have too much sky.
Write about what makes you different.
Every single house has had death visit.
The ego's blocking the light from coming.
I began writing as an experimental writer.
How can art make a difference in the world?
Maybe all pain in the world requires poetry.
Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.
I think of reading as like a medicine cabinet.
I'm filled with a new joy mixed with old grief.
Mexicans don't think of ghosts as haunting you.
Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.
There's no perfect place, there's no wonderful utopia.
As an artist, I have to be the ambassador of everything.
You'll change. You'll see. Wait till you meet Mr. Right.
You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are.
I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin.
Even if you don't believe in God, you have to believe in love.
The devil knows more from experience than from being the devil
If you're going to write about the river, you've got to get in.
We have all this courage as writers, but then there's this fear.
Now I feel life is really short and I have to take care of things.
Like all guests, after a fortnight, grief is best beyond the door.
We women shouldn't get our driver's licenses till real late in life.
I'm not afraid to say what I'm afraid of. Does that make me fearless?
I know there are a lot of women who are afraid of driving on highways.
My idea of a meal, if I was hungry, was to open a bag of potato chips.
I feel that I can teach my listener about a new word they can use too.
I can't do a linear novel. I'm just going to write what I need to write.
I believe love is always eternal. Even if eternity is only five minutes.
Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.
The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself.
If you're poor, potato chips are the food of life for you. It's the caviar.
The world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.
Every book takes you to the terror, that terrible place of possible failure.
Being on a highway, all that speed and aggression, is very terrifying to me.
San Antonio drives me crazy, but Chicago drives me crazy in a different way.
When you have a flourishing of the economy you have a flourishing of the arts.
I think diseases have no eyes. They pick with a dizzy finger anyone, just anyone.
When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me.
I think there's a rule that once you want to live somewhere, you can't find a job.
You don't have to be the specialist on everything. You can try to inform yourself.
You were given that pain and that vision because you have something to do with it.
I'm from Chicago, so the Chicago working-class poets still mean a great deal to me.
You know, we should have cards like the deaf have. "Can't talk, I'm writing today."
Writing is like sewing together what I call these 'buttons,' these bits and pieces.
My Spanish is a daughter's Spanish. I write, but my Spanish really is very limited.
When I was a child, I was very shy, and there's still a part of me that's very shy.
The thoughts of letting go of everything I love overwhelms like a tsunami of sorrow.
One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.