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Writing Quotes by Isabel Allende
- I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
- 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…
- I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I…
- If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die.
- I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if…
- My grandfather was dying, and told the family he had decided to die. ... At that moment I wanted so badly to write and tell…
- 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…
- Write to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten.
- My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.
- From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview, to find information,…
- 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…
- I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
- Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.
- All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.
- Write what should not be forgotten.
- Writing is a constant exercise in longing.
- Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.
- After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence.
- January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them have been well…
- Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
- As I travel through life, I gather experiences that lie imprinted on the deepest strata of memory, and there they ferment, are transformed, and sometimes…
- If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot…
- write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.
- Writing is a calling, not a choice.
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