Cisneros explicitly says writers need a collection of little stories. You could read one or you could read the whole thing. You don't have to read the whole thing, but if you do it's like a necklace of stories.
Cisneros' perception
She describes her early writing as inferior imitations of the work of mainstream writers; in the discovery of her difference came a rejection of this attempt to join the American literary orthodoxy. The voice she discovered, the voice she had unconsciously suppressed, is the voice of the barrio.
Cisneros' quote on writers
I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalogue."
- Sandra Cisneros.
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