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
On a Tuesday, September 11th, 1973, we had the military coup in Chile that forced me to leave my country eventually. And… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I read on my iPad when I travel. I listen to audiobooks in the car. I read books in my bedroom, where… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I confess that I am a messy, disorganized and impatient reader: if the book doesn't grab me in the first 40 pages,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
You couldn't find two people more different than my mother and I. There are a thousand things about me that she fought… — 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 never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
If you write nonfiction, a historical account of what really happened, first of all, it's always white men who do that, and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I get thousands of letters, and they give me a feeling of how each book is perceived. Often I think I have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I remember my childhood as a horrible time. My mother says that nothing so horrible ever happened to me as the things… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
My mother didn't want me to be a feminist, a radical, political person, because she was scared. She wanted me to be… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I feel that telling my secrets makes me less vulnerable. What would make me vulnerable are the secrets I keep. — 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
