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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
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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
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A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.
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Writing is a calling, not a choice.
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You would give your life for your little baby. It's not the same when you are in a sexual relationship unless you feel that you are loved as you love.
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I get hundreds of emails daily and a lot of feedback from people that are reading or have read my books. When I'm writing, or in my daily life, I just think of the work. I love to tell a story, but I might work with a story to make it the best I can without thinking of how many people will read it or if it will influence anybody.
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As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but I’m not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What’s done is done I have to look ahead.
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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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I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don't know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy.
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The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.
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I'm an expert. I can kill anybody and not be caught.
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I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
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That is the best part of writing: finding the hidden treasures, giving sparkle to worn out events, invigorating the tired soul with imagination, creating some kind of truth with many lies.
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In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.
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Erotica is using a feather pornograpy is using the whole chicken.
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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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if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?
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