Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“The wise man desires nothing; he does not judge, he makes no plans, he keeps his mind open and his” — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
A man who cooks is very sexy. A woman who cooks is not that sexy. Because it's associated in our mind to… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
In the books I have written, I have created in my mind a universe. My kids say I have a village in… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Words are free, she used to say, and she appropriated them; they were all hers. She sowed in my mind the idea… — 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
She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Now of course we have Black historians, but they're usually men. We get the perspective always, the slanted perspective, of what has… — 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
“He never spoke of his past, for fear of evoking sympathy and also because he had not yet come to grips with… — 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
