Isabel Allende Quotes And Sayings

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.

One Of The Things That Always Comes Up In My Writing Is The Search For Freedom, Especially In Women. I Always Write About Women Who Are Marginalized, Who Have No Means Or Resources And Somehow Manage To Get Out Of Those Situations With Incredible Strength - And That Is More Important Than Anything.

I Don't Read Thrillers, Romance Or Mystery, And I Don't Read Self-help Books Because I Don't Believe In Shortcuts And Loopholes.

I Love Fiction Because In Fiction You Go Into The Thoughts Of People, The Little People, The People Who Were Defeated, The Poor, The Women, The Children That Are Never In History Books.

Every Life Of A Character Is Within A Context. If I Write Detached From A Social And Political Background, My Story Looks Like A Soap Opera Where Everybody Is Indoors, Not Working And Living Off Their Emotions.

I Want To Have An Epic Life. I Want To Tell My Life With Big Adjectives. I Want To Forget All The Grays In Between, And Remember The Highlights And The Dark Moments.

Fear Is Like A Black Cavern That Is Terrifying. Once You Enter The Cavern And Explore It, You Realize That You Can Get Out Of It, Go Through It And Get Out Of It.

I Rebelled Against All Form Of Authority, Against My Grandfather, My Step-father, The Church, The Police, The Government, The Bosses. Everything Male That Was There, And Was Determining My Life.

I Read On My Ipad When I Travel. I Listen To Audiobooks In The Car. I Read Books In My Bedroom, Where I Have A Comfortable Couch, A Lamp And Two Dogs To Keep Me Warm.

If I Had To Choose Between A Relative And A Good Story, I Would Take The Story.

My Mother Is A Great Artist, But She Always Treated Her Paintings Like Minor Postcards. Had She Pursued It, She Would Have Been A Great Artist. Instead, She Looked Down On Her Art.

For Real Change, We Need Feminine Energy In The Management Of The World. We Need A Critical Number Of Women In Positions Of Power, And We Need To Nurture The Feminine Energy In Men.

All Summer, I Read Fiction Because You Must Read For The Pleasure And Beauty Of It, And Not Only For Research. I Don't Read Thrillers, Romance Or Mystery, And I Don't Read Self-help Books Because I Don't Believe In Shortcuts And Loopholes.

I Have Travelled All Over The World And One Thing That Amazes Me Is That I Can Communicate With People. My Story May Be Different But Emotionally We Are All The Same.

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.

I Can't Control Life For My Grandchildren, So How Could I Control A Story? Sometimes I Try To Force Something, And After Working And Working On That Chapter, I Realise That I Am Swimming Against The Current. I Will Never Get There. So I Have To Let Go Of Whatever Previous Idea I Had About It And Let The Characters Decide.

I Have Been A Woman For 46 Years And I Only Recently Realized I Can't Change It And I Like It.

If I Didn't Write My Soul Would Dry Up And Die.

I Have More Freedom When I Write Fiction, But My Memoirs Have Had A Much Stronger Impact On My Readers. Somehow The 'Message,' Even If I Am Not Even Aware That There Is One, Is Conveyed Better In This Form.

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.

Today's Girls Are Tomorrow's Women - And Leaders.

I'm Very Optimistic Because I Think That The Real Strength Of A Nation Like The United States Comes From Blending Cultures. There's No Way That You Can Close The Frontiers Anywhere. The Borders Are There To Be Violated Permanently.

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.

I Write A Letter To My Mother Every Day, Because In That Letter, I Write Down My Day. And If I Don't Write It Down, Then Tomorrow I Will Forget It And It's Gone.

Many Fiction Writers Write For The Critics Or For Themselves; They Forget The Common Reader. I Never Do. I Don't Think Journalism Clashes With My Fiction; On The Contrary, It Helps Enormously.

I Never Try To Give A Message In My Books. It's About Living With Characters Long Enough To Hear Their Voices And Let Them Tell Me The Story. Sometimes I Would Love To Have A Happy Ending, And It Doesn't Happen Because The Character Or The Story Leads Me In Another Direction.

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.