My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“The calendar is a human invention; time does not exist on the spiritual level.” — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The two moments are much alike: birth and death are made of the same fabric. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“The nightmares of the past were like dust that had settled along the way: the slightest gust sent them billowing up once… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“At the time I had never lived with a woman, so I could hardly miss something I had not grown accustomed to” — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Everything that has to do with food is sensuous. In the United States, however, we are eating all the time. We have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I never had time to think about my beliefs until my 28-year-old daughter Paula fell ill. She was in a coma for… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“You’re going to have time to get bored, Maya. Take advantage of it to write down the monumental stupidities you’ve committed, see… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“been able to plan his future with the irrational confidence of someone who hasn’t really suffered. He’s” — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“He said that knowledge was of little use without wisdom, and that there was no wisdom without spirituality, and that true spirituality… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I have lived with passion and in a hurry, trying to accomplish too many things. I never had time to think about… — 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 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
“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
From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Absolute silence greeted the mystery of death, and for a time impossible to measure they waited, motionless, while Lynn's spirit rose from… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The last time I was in Chile, I was hypnotized by a friend who is studying to be a curandero, a healer,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Every time I asked a question, that magnificent teacher, instead of giving the answer, showed me how to find it. She taught… — 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
“Sometimes I am assaulted by the memory of a scene from that time on the street, a memory that flares up inside… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I see that in the future, things that we have lost in the past will be recovered. There's a search for those… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Melesio tweezed his facial hairs, then ran ether-soaked cotton over his face, so his skin was the texture of silk; he took… — 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
“She asked herself a thousand times why she had hungered so desperately to belong body and soul to Joaquin Andieta when truth… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“He never spoke of his past, for fear of evoking sympathy and also because he had not yet come to grips with… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“went to her workshop three times a week to paint with Kirsten. She rarely frequented the Lark House dining room, preferring to… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“And I've gained spirituality. I'm aware that before, death was is the neighborhood. Now, it's next door, or in my house. I… — 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
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 remember my childhood as a horrible time. My mother says that nothing so horrible ever happened to me as the things… — 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
