I think that my life changed at 50. Many things happened. Menopause, the end of youth and my daughter died that year… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I want to have an epic life. I want to tell my life with big adjectives. I want to forget all the… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Death, with its ancestral weight of terrors, is merely the abandonment of an unserviceable shell at the time the spiritis reintegrated into… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
As I travel through life, I gather experiences that lie imprinted on the deepest strata of memory, and there they ferment, are… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
We don't have an explanation for everything that happens. We don't control almost anything. And if we are not open to that… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I can't control life for my grandchildren, so how could I control a story? Sometimes I try to force something, and after… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I have been a foreigner all my life, first as a daughter of diplomats, then as a political refugee and now as… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“I strike the ground with the soles of my feet and life rises up my legs, spreads up my skeleton, takes possession… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I have not changed; I am still the same girl I was fifty years ago and the same young woman I was… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“We’re not old because we are seventy. We start to grow old as soon as we are born, we change every day,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“I must not get ahead of myself. If I do not narrate the events of my life with rigor and harmony, I… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
It is absurd to imagine that any child will be able to earn a living, let alone contribute to resolving our world's… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I rebelled against all form of authority, against my grandfather, my step-father, the Church, the police, the government, the bosses. Everything male… — 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
I don't want to be looking inside my ego, my stuff, my achievements, my me, me, me, me, I hate that stuff.… — 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
