Having a point to start is important. You know that when you decide to write something it's like a commitment. It's like… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Everyone has a story, the air is full of stories. The creative process is mysterious, I don't know why it is that… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
You write a book and it's like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. You don't know… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
It's good for a writer to come from journalism because it gives you the tools. A journalist knows that he or she… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
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
Young women don't want to be called feminists because it's not sexy and ah they think that their mothers and grandmothers have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Life is very mysterious and there are many things we don't know. And there are elements of magic realism in every 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
