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Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.

Isabel Allende

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of the Kings
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Memory
Journey
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Process
Soul
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We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.
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We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.
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Peace requires everyone to be in the circle - wholeness, inclusion.
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It's good for a writer to come from journalism because it gives you the tools. A journalist knows that he or she can lose the reader in six lines, so try to keep the attention of the reader. Also, you learn to research, and to conduct an interview - to extract from the person whatever you need from that person.
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.
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How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?
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Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to combine those, I think. The great marriages, the great couples I know, have both.
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Erotica is using a feather pornograpy is using the whole chicken.
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No complaining about how hard it is to write, we are all so, so lucky to write, to sit down, inside, and write words on paper. There is no greater freedom, no greater good, nothing that brings more joy.
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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 have a lot of energy, and I still feel 50, I'm over 70 and I understand that I am preparing for later.
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My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.
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She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life just the opposite, she felt that they had tempered her, made her strong, given her pride in making decisions and paying the consequences for them.
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Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.
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My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.
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Affection is like the noonday sun it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.
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Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone
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Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.
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You are my angel and my damnation in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.
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My son, the Holy Church is on the right, but Jesus Christ was always on the left.
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I need to remember to overcome.
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