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 names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a… — 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
You write a book and it's like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. You don't know… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
It's good for a writer to come from journalism because it gives you the tools. A journalist knows that he or she… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I'm surrounded by young people. I'm always now the oldest and the shortest person in the room. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are man's thought.… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I felt an unrelenting restlessness. It was the first time I had ever experienced jealousy, and that emotion clung to my skin… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I had a very rough childhood and not a happy one and by age 15 I was an old person in many… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in… — 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)
