Quote

Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind.

Isabel Allende

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of the Kings
Isabel Allende Llona
Mind
Life
Period
Periods
Youth
State
States

More quotes by Isabel Allende

Image
Give, give, give-what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away?
Isabel Allende
Image
Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me.
Isabel Allende
Image
What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.
Isabel Allende
Image
Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.
Isabel Allende
Image
The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on the TV screen and it becomes a place. And it exists for three weeks and then it disappears into thin air.
Isabel Allende
Image
You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.
Isabel Allende
Image
My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.
Isabel Allende
Image
Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
Isabel Allende
Image
In the United States, the fact that you can start again gives a lot of energy and strength and youth to this country. That is why it's so powerful in many ways, and so creative.
Isabel Allende
Image
It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.
Isabel Allende
Image
Now of course we have Black historians, but they're usually men. We get the perspective always, the slanted perspective, of what has happened. The battles, the things achieved, the laws, but where are the people, the families? What happens inside the houses, inside the minds and the hearts? That's what I'm interested in.
Isabel Allende
Image
I was born in the middle of World War II, the middle of the Holocaust I was born when there was no declaration of human rights, when feminism was not an issue, when children were working in factories. I mean, today's world is a better place!
Isabel Allende
Image
In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: No, no, no. You have to write a book with your husband.
Isabel Allende
Image
Empowering women means trusting them.
Isabel Allende
Image
You are my angel and my damnation in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.
Isabel Allende
Image
My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.
Isabel Allende
Image
How accommodating love is it forgives everything.
Isabel Allende
Image
Happiness is pure kitch we come into the world to suffer and learn.
Isabel Allende
Image
My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters of my novels are females.
Isabel Allende
Image
She never imagined a scenario in which her love was not returned with the same depth of feeling, for to her it was impossible to believe that a love of such magnitude could have stunned only her. The most elementary logic and justice indicated that somewhere in the city he was suffering the same delicious torment.
Isabel Allende