Home » Isabel Allende Isabel Allende Isabel Allende 1 I never had time to think about my beliefs until my 28-year-old daughter Paula fell ill. She was in a coma for a year, and I took care of her at home until she died in my arms in December of 1992. Isabel Allende Time, Home, Daughter Add to Collection 2 I like Hillary Clinton a lot. I know her. Isabel Allende Know, Like, Her Add to Collection 3 I remember my childhood as a horrible time. My mother says that nothing so horrible ever happened to me as the things that I remember. Isabel Allende Time, Mother, Childhood Add to Collection 4 Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art. Isabel Allende Art, Writing, Job Add to Collection 5 At five I was already a feminist, and nobody used the word in Chile yet. Isabel Allende Nobody, Word, Used Add to Collection 6 I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the U.S.A., which is not a place too many people have liked since Bush. The U.S. has a young population, and everything can change within a year. Isabel Allende Change, Home, American Add to Collection 7 I think that any writer who is commercial, who sells a lot of books, has to face criticism. Because the more hermetic and the more difficult your book is, supposedly it's better. Isabel Allende Book, Criticism, Better Add to Collection 8 I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it. Isabel Allende World, Think, Destroy Add to Collection 9 I try to write the kind of books I like to read. Isabel Allende Kind, Like, Try Add to Collection 10 I get thousands of letters, and they give me a feeling of how each book is perceived. Often I think I have written about a certain theme, but by reading the letters or reviews, I realise that everybody sees the book differently. Isabel Allende Reading, Book Add to Collection 11 You couldn't find two people more different than my mother and I. There are a thousand things about me that she fought against. Isabel Allende Mother, People Add to Collection 12 The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential. Because of Paula, I don't cling to anything anymore. Now I like to give much more than to receive. Isabel Allende Experience, Pain, Child Add to Collection 13 I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English. Isabel Allende Speak, English, Books Add to Collection 14 If I had to choose between a relative and a good story, I would take the story. Isabel Allende Good, Story, Choose Add to Collection 15 I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours. Isabel Allende Morning, Sky, Red Add to Collection 16 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 Conflict, World, Three Add to Collection 17 I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told, I print it, wait a week and read it. Isabel Allende Week, Wait Add to Collection 18 A man who cooks is very sexy. A woman who cooks is not that sexy. Because it's associated in our mind to the domestic cliche of the woman. Isabel Allende Woman, Man, Sexy Add to Collection 19 The longest, most solid and complex relationship in my life is with my mother. It started before I was born, and now, when I am 71 and living in California and she is 92 and living in Chile, we are still in touch daily. Isabel Allende Life, Relationship, Daily Add to Collection 20 I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth. Isabel Allende Words, Bad, Mouth Add to Collection 21 Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses. Isabel Allende Good, People, Interesting Add to Collection 22 I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently. Isabel Allende Life, My Life, Only Add to Collection 23 I have written about Chile extensively, and therefore I have read many books on the subject, mostly for research. Isabel Allende Research, Books, Chile Add to Collection 24 I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it. Isabel Allende Change, Woman, Years Add to Collection 1 2 3 4 5 6 next › last »
