She had no obligations; she roamed outdoors, sniffing the…

“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

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

Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me.

— Isabel Allende

Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing.

— Isabel Allende

“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

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

“He had a principle: if you lend money and never see the person again, that's money well spent.”

— Isabel Allende

“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

“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

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

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

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

I try to write the kind of books I like to read.

— Isabel Allende

“Intimacy needs time to mature—a shared history, tears shed, obstacles overcome, photographs in an album. It’s a slow-growing plant.”

— Isabel Allende

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