I never try to give a message in my books. It's about living with characters long enough to hear their voices and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I'm always following the characters and I'm always interested in what happens to them, but what happens to them is conditioned by… — 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
Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses. — 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
Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Humanity has this need to hear stories because they connect us with other people, they teach us about our own feelings. We… — 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
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
“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
