Able Quote by Isabel Allende

“After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence.”

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Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me.

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Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing.

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“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…

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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…

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“He had a principle: if you lend money and never see the person again, that's money well spent.”

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“Catholics form a majority in Chile, although there are more and more Evangelicals and Pentacostals who irritate everyone because they have a direct understanding…

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“At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, but I know it was not I: it was another woman, who kept her notebooks so that one day I could use them. I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is…

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In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: 'No, no, no. You have to write a book with your husband.' My husband is a writer of crime novels. His name is William Gordon. And so I had to accommodate to his style because that's what he writes. So we decided we'd…

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I have lived with passion and in a hurry, trying to accomplish too many things. I never had time to think about my beliefs…

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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…

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