Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I'm surrounded by young people. I'm always now the oldest and the shortest person in the room. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the U.S.A., which is not a place too many… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Some people connect with a story and may find between the lines something that might be useful to him or her, but… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
In my book tours I get to meet an audience every night. And I see that there are mostly young people, and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with people. My story… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the USA, which is not a place too many… — 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
January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance,… — 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
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
I don't want to die in pain or in an undignified way, I don't want any of the people I love to… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Now of course we have Black historians, but they're usually men. We get the perspective always, the slanted perspective, of what has… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I was born in the middle of the Second World War when the United States dropped their atomic bombs in Hiroshima and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
People are afraid of falling in love because they don't want to suffer. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
You couldn't find two people more different than my mother and I. There are a thousand things about me that she fought… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
A book is not an end in itself; it is only a way to touch someone - a bridge extended across a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Many children fly like birds, guess other people's dreams, and speak with ghosts, but ... they all outgrow it when they lose… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
People think that they will sit down and produce the great American novel in one sitting. It doesn't work that way. This… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
More and more books are published every year. If people were not reading them, they wouldn't be published. We are in a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
At my age, people prefer to stay in a relationship that is not working. I do not understand that. I think it… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Humanity has this need to hear stories because they connect us with other people, they teach us about our own feelings. We… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
If you write nonfiction, a historical account of what really happened, first of all, it's always white men who do that, and… — 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
