I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Before I start writing, before I have an idea of where and when the story happens, I research it thoroughly. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with people. My story… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Sisters: talk to each other, be connected and informed, form women's circles, share your stories, work together, and take risks. Together we… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I do not put myself in a box and say, for instance, I'm writing post-colonial literature. I don't know what I'm writing.… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front… — 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
Some people connect with a story and may find between the lines something that might be useful to him or her, but… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it's full of mistakes and repetitions. It's good to avoid that… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
When I write fiction, I never try to deliver a message; I just want to tell a story. But I admit that… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I've been so thoroughly incorporated into the California culture that I practice meditation and go to a therapist, even though I always… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Each of us chooses the tone for telling his or her own story. I would like to choose the durable clarity of… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Everyone has a story, the air is full of stories. The creative process is mysterious, I don't know why it is that… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I get hundreds of emails daily and a lot of feedback from people that are reading or have read my books. When… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
More and more books are published every year. If people were not reading them, they wouldn't be published. We are in a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Humanity has this need to hear stories because they connect us with other people, they teach us about our own feelings. We… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Sometimes journalists ask me, "What's the message?" There is no message. I think that fiction should not be trying to give messages.… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having… — 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
