On a Tuesday, September 11th, 1973, we had the military coup in Chile that forced me to leave my country eventually. And… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I was born in the middle of the Second World War when the United States dropped their atomic bombs in Hiroshima and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
In the United States, the fact that you can start again gives a lot of energy and strength and youth to this… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I never thought that I would come to live in the United States. I was not pursuing the American dream. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Everything that has to do with food is sensuous. In the United States, however, we are eating all the time. We have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes from blending cultures. There's… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
People come from internally, from other places in the United States, but also displaced people from other parts of the world. They… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The fastest-growing population in the United States is the older people, because we are living much longer, healthier lives. The problem is,… — 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 it was not I: it was another woman, who kept her notebooks so that one day I could use them. I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is… — Isabel Allende Copy Share
In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: 'No, no, no. You have to write a book with your husband.' My husband is a writer of crime novels. His name is William Gordon. And so I had to accommodate to his style because that's what he writes. So we decided we'd… — Isabel Allende Copy Share
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
