Top 126 Quotes by Isabel Allende

About Isabel Allende

These are some quotes by Chilean author Isabel Allende Writer, who was born on August 2, 1942.

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.

Isabel Allende

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 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

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.

Isabel Allende

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.

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

I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it!

I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it!

Isabel Allende

I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours.

I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours.

Isabel Allende

There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, I know that I'm using a bunch of lies that I've made up to create some form of truth. When I write a memoir, I'm using true elements to create something that will always be somehow fictionalized.

Isabel Allende

Empowering women means trusting them.

Empowering women means trusting them.

Isabel Allende

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.

Isabel Allende

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.

Isabel Allende

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