People think that they will sit down and produce the great American novel in one sitting. It doesn't work that way. This… — 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
Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t… — 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 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
I don't want posterity, I don't want anybody to remember me in any way. I don't care about that because I'll be… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
In my lifetime, the world has become better, not worse. And the world is moving, very slowly but surely with more democracy… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
We need a global approach to this from all sides. We need to educate people, we need the scientists to create new… — 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
Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
A book is not an end in itself; it is only a way to touch someone - a bridge extended across a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I am very grateful for the success, because it has given me the freedom to write without pressure, in my own way,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Love is a free contract that begins with a spark and can end the same way. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I don't want to die in pain or in an undignified way, I don't want any of the people I love to… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
If, for example, I saw my grandparents or my daughter for an instant, would I recognize them? Probably not, because in looking… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other. — 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 have a foot here and a foot in some spirit world. There are many more layers to reality, and that permeates… — 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
“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
