“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
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
“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
Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process. — 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
“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
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
“The advantage of being lovers is that we have to work hard at our relationship, because everything conspires to drive us apart.… — 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
I don't want to die in pain or in an undignified way, I don't want any of the people I love to… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance,… — 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
“Affection is like the noonday sun; it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.” — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
So firm did Nivea's determination become that she wrote in her diary that she would give up marriage in order to devote… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I love my dog unconditionally, but never the man I'm sleeping with. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I have become an American citizen, and I love this country. I think that this country has incredible potential for goodness, an… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Zacharie did not learn of the sorrow his wife was living becasue she was careful to hide it. Tete kept that first… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place… — 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
