I do not put myself in a box and say, for instance, I'm writing post-colonial literature. I don't know what I'm writing.… — 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
My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters… — 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
The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order… — 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
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
“This is the kind of detail that is forbidden in literature; in a book, no one would dare combine a full moon… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I have written about Chile extensively, and therefore I have read many books on the subject, mostly for research. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I get thousands of letters, and they give me a feeling of how each book is perceived. Often I think I have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it's full of mistakes and repetitions. It's good to avoid that… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“He knew that her body was his to engage in all the acrobatics he had learned in the books he kept hidden… — 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
Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The one that came really easy was the Japanese lover, because he's like a ghost in the book. He's always in the… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes. — 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
When I'm scared - and I'm always scared when I have to face an audience, when I have to read a review,… — 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
All summer, I read fiction because you must read for the pleasure and beauty of it, and not only for research. I… — 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 Image
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 Image
Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“He had a principle: if you lend money and never see the person again, that's money well spent.” — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
