Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing. — 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… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Words are free, she used to say, and she appropriated them; they were all hers. She sowed in my mind the idea… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life; just… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The longest, most solid and complex relationship in my life is with my mother. It started before I was born, and now,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“especially like your autumn trees, gracefully letting their leaves fall. That is how I would like to shed my own leaves in… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Writing, when all is said and done, is an attempt to understand one's own circumstance and to clarify the confusion of existence,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“our demons lose their power when we pull them out of the depths where they hide and look them in the face… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I get hundreds of emails daily and a lot of feedback from people that are reading or have read my books. When… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in my life… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega? -No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my… — 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
She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape....For me life without reading would be like being in… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
...memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
When love exists, nothing else matters, not life’s predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“She went by the name of Belisa Crepusculario, not because she'd been born with it or baptized it, but because she herself… — 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
