I have lived with passion and in a hurry, trying to accomplish too many things. I never had time to think about… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The idea of the book ["The Japanese Lover"] came in a conversation that I had with a friend walking in the streets… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“The house was a vast labyrinth of books. Volumes were stacked from floor to ceiling on every wall, dark, crackling, redolent of… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
far away from my country I would be like those trees they chop down at Christmastime, those poor rootless pines that last… — 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
I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the U.S.A., which is not a place too many… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I never had time to think about my beliefs until my 28-year-old daughter Paula fell ill. She was in a coma for… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the USA, which is not a place too many… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you. — 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
![“The idea of the book ["The Japanese Lover"] came in a conversation that I had with a friend walking in the streets of New York. We were talking about our mothers, and I was telling her how old my mother was, and she was telling me about her mother. Her mother was Jewish, and she said that she was…” quote by Isabel Allende](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/98a/isabel-allende-266_book_the-idea-of-the-book-the-japanese-lover_90993.jpg)
