Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Life is long, and the world is large. It is all a question of taking a chance.” — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
When a man's earning his living doing things he doesn't like, he feels like a slave; when he's doing what he loves,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Everything I write has to be connected to my life. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega? -No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I rebelled against all form of authority, against my grandfather, my step-father, the Church, the police, the government, the bosses. Everything male… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
You would give your life for your little baby. It's not the same when you are in a sexual relationship unless you… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
My mother didn't want me to be a feminist, a radical, political person, because she was scared. She wanted me to be… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I have a foot here and a foot in some spirit world. There are many more layers to reality, and that permeates… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The fastest-growing population in the United States is the older people, because we are living much longer, healthier lives. The problem is,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in my life… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I can't control life for my grandchildren, so how could I control a story? Sometimes I try to force something, and after… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“We’re not old because we are seventy. We start to grow old as soon as we are born, we change every day,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I don't want to be looking inside my ego, my stuff, my achievements, my me, me, me, me, I hate that stuff.… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, but… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“I must not get ahead of myself. If I do not narrate the events of my life with rigor and harmony, I… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
We don't have an explanation for everything that happens. We don't control almost anything. And if we are not open to that… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“country. The youngsters became independent; the idea of living isolated in a poor imitation of Japan was finished. We integrated into America.” — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“…she did not believe that the world was a vale of tears but rather a joke that God had played and that… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“I strike the ground with the soles of my feet and life rises up my legs, spreads up my skeleton, takes possession… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, and my grandchildren, my mother, my dog,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share
Having a point to start is important. You know that when you decide to write something it's like a commitment. It's like falling in… — Isabel Allende Copy Share
Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me. — Isabel Allende Copy Share
Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing. — Isabel Allende Copy Share
“The writer and the dreamer have so much in common: They can't control the plot, they are always part of the story or the… — Isabel Allende Copy Share
People think that they will sit down and produce the great American novel in one sitting. It doesn't work that way. This is a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share
“He had a principle: if you lend money and never see the person again, that's money well spent.” — Isabel Allende Copy Share
“Catholics form a majority in Chile, although there are more and more Evangelicals and Pentacostals who irritate everyone because they have a direct understanding… — Isabel Allende Copy Share
“At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, but I know… — Isabel Allende Copy Share
In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: 'No, no, no. You have to write… — Isabel Allende Copy Share
I have lived with passion and in a hurry, trying to accomplish too many things. I never had time to think about my beliefs… — Isabel Allende Copy Share
I'm surrounded by the scene of aging. I myself am in my 70s and not getting any younger. Although I'm very healthy, and I… — Isabel Allende Copy Share
“Intimacy needs time to mature—a shared history, tears shed, obstacles overcome, photographs in an album. It’s a slow-growing plant.” — Isabel Allende Copy Share
The idea of the book ["The Japanese Lover"] came in a conversation that I had with a friend walking in the streets of New… — Isabel Allende Copy Share
