“At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, but… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“But that's how nostalgia is: a slow dance in a large circle. Memories don't organize themselves chronologically, they're like smoke, changing, ephemeral,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in my life… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“the thirty-some years since then, his mind had eliminated that experience from his memory. He remembered it as if he’d read it… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
...memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I've been a foreigner for the past twenty years. I don't have roots anymore. My roots are in my memory and my… — 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
There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write… — 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
Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“to enjoy her remaining years of good health before she was defeated by decrepitude. She wanted to live abroad, where the daily… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I am assaulted by the memory of a scene from that time on the street, a memory that flares up inside… — 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
