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
It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I was a political refugee living in Venezuela. I had a job that was twelve hours a day, no money. It was… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I write until the first draft is finished, and then I feel that I can get out. But, during the time 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
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
“Leanne lighted an oil lamp and they continued until the moment came to receive the baby. 'Erzulie, mother loa, help it be… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support; you must begin from zero,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
My grandfather was dying, and told the family he had decided to die. ... At that moment I wanted so badly to… — 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
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
I felt an unrelenting restlessness. It was the first time I had ever experienced jealousy, and that emotion clung to my skin… — 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
I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that… — 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
I am very optimistic because I have seen the changes in my lifetime. I have seen the world change for the better.… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“She owed no one an explanation; if she had made mistakes she had been duly punished by giving up her family, suffering… — 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
