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Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.
Isabel Allende
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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
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I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.
Isabel Allende
Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
Isabel Allende
write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.
Isabel Allende
The one that came really easy was the Japanese lover, because he's like a ghost in the book. He's always in the background like a spirit, like a shadow, almost. There's a very delicate line there.
Isabel Allende
I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know everything that can possibly happen.
Isabel Allende
People are afraid of falling in love because they don't want to suffer.
Isabel Allende
I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.
Isabel Allende
Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.
Isabel Allende
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.
Isabel Allende
Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone
Isabel Allende
I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.
Isabel Allende
She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe fruit, running through the fields with Pedro Tercero, was she smiling and happy. Her mother said that that was the real Blanca, and that the other one, the one back in the city, was a Blanca in hibernation.
Isabel Allende
If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.
Isabel Allende
...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.
Isabel Allende
We've lost our sense of ethics we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.
Isabel Allende
I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
Isabel Allende
My son, the Holy Church is on the right, but Jesus Christ was always on the left.
Isabel Allende
Empowering women means trusting them.
Isabel Allende
Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind.
Isabel Allende
I seek truth and beauty in the transparency of an autumn leaf, in the perfect form of a seashell on the beach, in the curve of a woman's back, in the texture of an ancient tree trunk, but also in the elusive forms of reality.
Isabel Allende