There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
It is absurd to imagine that any child will be able to earn a living, let alone contribute to resolving our world's… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women. I always write… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I write a letter to my mother every day, because in that letter, I write down my day. And if I don't… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The first few months of my life of every year are in total retreat. I don't see anybody except my husband and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Everything I write has to be connected to my life. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Kids are smart: don't underestimate their bull detector. Contemporary kids have access to a lot of information, so don't even try to… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The writer of good will carries a lamp to illuminate the dark corners. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway. — 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
“I'd realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story.” — 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
From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Every life of a character is within a context. If I write detached from a social and political background, my story looks… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
If I can write it, I can cope. And I've been writing many books, but in every book, I try to explore… — 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 have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that… — 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
