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Up Quotes by Isabel Allende
- All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and…
- If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die.
- Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.
- There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, I know…
- So firm did Nivea's determination become that she wrote in her diary that she would give up marriage in order to devote herself completely to…
- The first two, three, four weeks are wasted. I just show up in front of the computer. Show up, show up, show up, and after…
- All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.
- My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a…
- I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours.
- One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women. I always write about women who…
- The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on…
- Everything I write has to be connected to my life. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for…
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- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
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- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
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- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong