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I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.

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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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His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.
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It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this.
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Barrabas came to us by the sea.
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Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
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I am very grateful for the success, because it has given me the freedom to write without pressure, in my own way, and has enabled me to maintain my family and educate my children and grandchildren, as well as to create a Foundation to empower women and girls.
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The most poor and backward areas in the world are those in which women are subjugated and exploited. Improving the situation of the woman improves the family, the community, and by extension the whole country.
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I'm always following the characters and I'm always interested in what happens to them, but what happens to them is conditioned by the circumstances in which they live.
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What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.
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This is to assuage our conscience, darling she would explain to Blanca. But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need chartiy they need justice.
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The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.
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Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.
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Love is music, and sex is only the instrument.
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Everyone is born with some special talent.
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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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Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
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You write a book and it's like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. You don't know if it will ever reach any shores. And there, you see, sometimes it falls in the hands of the right person.
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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.
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Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul.
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If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.
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...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.
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