“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
The idea of the book ["The Japanese Lover"] came in a conversation that I had with a friend walking in the streets… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The longest, most solid and complex relationship in my life is with my mother. It started before I was born, and now,… — 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
My father says that fear is good; it's the body's alarm system, it warns us of danger. But sometimes danger can't be… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
When my daughter Paula died, I was in the deepest pain, and my mother said, "This kind of sorrow is like a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Leanne lighted an oil lamp and they continued until the moment came to receive the baby. 'Erzulie, mother loa, help it be… — 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
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
Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I write a letter to my mother every day, because in that letter, I write down my day. And if I don't… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The most savory grape, the one that produces the wines with best texture and aroma, the sweetest and most generous, doesn't grow… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Young women don't want to be called feminists because it's not sexy and ah they think that their mothers and grandmothers have… — 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
My mother is a great artist, but she always treated her paintings like minor postcards. Had she pursued it, she would have… — 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
![“The idea of the book ["The Japanese Lover"] came in a conversation that I had with a friend walking in the streets of New York. We were talking about our mothers, and I was telling her how old my mother was, and she was telling me about her mother. Her mother was Jewish, and she said that she was…” quote by Isabel Allende](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/98a/isabel-allende-266_book_the-idea-of-the-book-the-japanese-lover_90993.jpg)
