Isabel Allende

You write a book and it's like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. You don't know…

— Isabel Allende

I'm not a fan of mysteries, so to prepare for this experience of writing a mystery I started reading the most successful…

— Isabel Allende

“She entered the place of her dreams along a much traveled path and returned treading very carefully in order not to shatter…

— Isabel Allende

Two thirds of the work in the world is done by women. Women own 1 percent of the assets. Young women are…

— Isabel Allende

I want to have an epic life. I want to tell my life with big adjectives. I want to forget all the…

— Isabel Allende

I carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones.

— Isabel Allende

“At the time I had never lived with a woman, so I could hardly miss something I had not grown accustomed to”

— Isabel Allende

Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win,…

— Isabel Allende

“went to her workshop three times a week to paint with Kirsten. She rarely frequented the Lark House dining room, preferring to…

— Isabel Allende

I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn't an unformed and gelatinous substance only half-captured by my senses....If that…

— Isabel Allende

“Death, with its ancestral weight of terrors, is merely the abandonment of an unserviceable shell at the time the spiritis reintegrated into…

— Isabel Allende

When you make an omelet, as when you make love, affection counts for more than technique.

— Isabel Allende

“scorched by the sun, poorly nourished on yucca and fish, infested with parasites, bitten by mosquitoes, free as a bird”

— Isabel Allende

“Awake it was difficult to find anything in that chaotic clutter, but asleep she could...when the contours of reality were as faint…

— Isabel Allende

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

Some people connect with a story and may find between the lines something that might be useful to him or her, but…

— Isabel Allende

Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.

— Isabel Allende

At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those…

— Isabel Allende

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.

— Isabel Allende

It's good for a writer to come from journalism because it gives you the tools. A journalist knows that he or she…

— Isabel Allende

My desk is like a 'U,' so I have my computer and lots of dictionaries because I write in Spanish and I…

— Isabel Allende

People are afraid of falling in love because they don't want to suffer.

— Isabel Allende

I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how.

— Isabel Allende

Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul.

— Isabel Allende

Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something…

— Isabel Allende