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fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.

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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write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.
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I'm not a fan of mysteries, so to prepare for this experience of writing a mystery I started reading the most successful ones in the market in 2012. And I realized I cannot write that kind of book. It's too gruesome, too violent, too dark there's no redemption there.
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We are too connected. There's noise in our heads all the time.
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I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.
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Erotica is using a feather pornograpy is using the whole chicken.
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Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.
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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.
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far away from my country I would be like those trees they chop down at Christmastime, those poor rootless pines that last a little while and then die.
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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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What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.
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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.
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The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.
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She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface it has a magical dimension as well and, if we so desire, it is legitimate to enhance it and color it to make our journey through life less trying.
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I carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones.
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Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.
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At my age days dissolve like salt in water the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.
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Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy.
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Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape....For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket life would be a very dark and narrow place.
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Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages
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Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.
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