The first few months of my life of every year are in total retreat. I don't see anybody except my husband and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“our demons lose their power when we pull them out of the depths where they hide and look them in the face… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“especially like your autumn trees, gracefully letting their leaves fall. That is how I would like to shed my own leaves in… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I want to have an epic life. I want to tell my life with big adjectives. I want to forget all the… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
When love exists, nothing else matters, not life’s predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
That was a good time in my life, in spite of having the sensation of floating on a cloud, surrounded by both… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Zacharie did not learn of the sorrow his wife was living becasue she was careful to hide it. Tete kept that first… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Life is very mysterious and there are many things we don't know. And there are elements of magic realism in every culture,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
As I travel through life, I gather experiences that lie imprinted on the deepest strata of memory, and there they ferment, are… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Writing, when all is said and done, is an attempt to understand one's own circumstance and to clarify the confusion of existence,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Death, with its ancestral weight of terrors, is merely the abandonment of an unserviceable shell at the time the spiritis reintegrated into… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Every life of a character is within a context. If I write detached from a social and political background, my story looks… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
...memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I think that my life changed at 50. Many things happened. Menopause, the end of youth and my daughter died that year… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I have not changed; I am still the same girl I was fifty years ago and the same young woman I was… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Sadness and boredom were more bearable than the effort of living a normal life. Perhaps the idea of death began to hover… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life; just… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
It is absurd to imagine that any child will be able to earn a living, let alone contribute to resolving our world's… — 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
“Words are free, she used to say, and she appropriated them; they were all hers. She sowed in my mind the idea… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape…For me life without reading would be like being in… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“She went by the name of Belisa Crepusculario, not because she'd been born with it or baptized it, but because she herself… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I have been a foreigner all my life, first as a daughter of diplomats, then as a political refugee and now as… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I get hundreds of emails daily and a lot of feedback from people that are reading or have read my books. When… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The longest, most solid and complex relationship in my life is with my mother. It started before I was born, and now,… — 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
