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“Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.” quote by Isabel Allende — Download Open image

“Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.”

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“I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, and my grandchildren, my mother, my dog,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not…

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If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

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If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

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My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that…

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Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

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“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

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The Rosary is the book of the blind.

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“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

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“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about…

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I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

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