I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Love is a free contract that begins with a spark and can end the same way. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
People are afraid of falling in love because they don't want to suffer. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Nothing strong can be built on a foundation of lies and omissions.” — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I'm open to love, and I think that I will fall in love with a wonderful man. — 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
If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person;… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I met a guy, very exotic to me - he was blonde with blue eyes - and I just had a fling… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“She has a fixation on love. Strong trouble. The girl left her window open one clear night and it crawled into her… — 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,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Years later my Popo would laugh and tell people that if she hadn’t knocked him out in the first round, he’d still… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Love is a condition that tends to cloud men’s reason, but it is not fatal. Usually all the patient needs is to… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“They would regret that they had not killed him; he would get out of that hole and find Juliana sooner or later,… — 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
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
“My Nini wanted to get another dog, as much like Daisy as possible, but my Popo said that it was not a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I never try to give a message in my books. It's about living with characters long enough to hear their voices and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
She never imagined a scenario in which her love was not returned with the same depth of feeling, for to her it… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“She asked herself a thousand times why she had hungered so desperately to belong body and soul to Joaquin Andieta when truth… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
When you make an omelet, as when you make love, affection counts for more than technique. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Happiness is pure kitch; we come into the world to suffer and learn. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it… — 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
People think that they will sit down and produce the great American novel in one sitting. It doesn't work that way. This… — 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
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
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
I love my dog unconditionally, but never the man I'm sleeping with. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
When a man's earning his living doing things he doesn't like, he feels like a slave; when he's doing what he loves,… — 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
