Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende; born 2 August 1942) is a Chilean-American writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the "magic realist" tradition, is famous for novels such as The House of the Spiritsand City of the Beasts, which have been commercially successful. Allende has been called "the world's most widely read Spanish-language author". In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2010, she received Chile's National Literature Prize. President Barack Obama awarded her the...
NationalityChilean
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 August 1942
CityLima, Peru
CountryChile
Cooking can be like foreplay.
Many children fly like birds, guess other people's dreams, and speak with ghosts, but ... they all outgrow it when they lose their innocence.
Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.
There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them.
A novel is like a window, open to an infinite landscape.
I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something.
We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are a tragic contingent.
Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone
My father says that fear is good; it's the body's alarm system, it warns us of danger. But sometimes danger can't be avoided, and then you have to forget about being afraid.
write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.
How accommodating love is; it forgives everything.
Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me.
We need a global approach to this from all sides. We need to educate people, we need the scientists to create new technologies, we need the engineers to create the networks, we need every human being to be aware of how precious water is and save it. Everybody has to be involved in a very firm and assertive way.
My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.