I'm surrounded by the scene of aging. I myself am in my 70s and not getting any younger. Although I'm very healthy,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
You would give your life for your little baby. It's not the same when you are in a sexual relationship unless you… — 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
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
In Venezuela, when I was living there, crime was growing. You couldn't feel safe anywhere. You couldn't leave your car in the… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
When a man's earning his living doing things he doesn't like, he feels like a slave; when he's doing what he loves,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture… — 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
“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
