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
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
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
I don't think that we have to look like the models in the magazines because they are 19 year olds and they… — 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
For women in my lifetime things have changed quite a bit, but not enough. They have only changed for women that have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the convent, but no… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Every life of a character is within a context. If I write detached from a social and political background, my story looks… — 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
