Having a point to start is important. You know that when you decide to write something it's like a commitment. It's like… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Writing is like riding a bicycle: you don’t forget how, even if you go for years without doing it.” — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“I'd realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story.” — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Write to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: No, no, no. You have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
When I write fiction, I never try to deliver a message; I just want to tell a story. But I admit that… — 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
I think that any writer who is commercial, who sells a lot of books, has to face criticism. Because the more hermetic… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you… — 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
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
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence,… — 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
One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women. I always write… — 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
“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
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
In the books I have written, I have created in my mind a universe. My kids say I have a village in… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I went to a mystery writers conference ... and I learned a lot not only from the faculty - and in the… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
You write a book and it's like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. You don't know… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
If I can write it, I can cope. And I've been writing many books, but in every book, I try to explore… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
No complaining about how hard it is to write, we are all so, so lucky to write, to sit down, inside, and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I'm a writer. In Latin America, they say I'm a Latin-American writer because I also write in Spanish and my books are… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I've been a foreigner for the past twenty years. I don't have roots anymore. My roots are in my memory and my… — 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
That is the best part of writing: finding the hidden treasures, giving sparkle to worn out events, invigorating the tired soul with… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Everyone has a story, the air is full of stories. The creative process is mysterious, I don't know why it is that… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never do. I don't think journalism… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I should say that I'm not conscious of any particular style or any particular literary device when I am writing. I have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Kids are smart: don't underestimate their bull detector. Contemporary kids have access to a lot of information, so don't even try to… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The first two, three, four weeks are wasted. I just show up in front of the computer. Show up, show up, show… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of mysteries, so to prepare for this experience of writing a mystery I started reading the most successful… — 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
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
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
“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
