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
When you make an omelet, as when you make love, affection counts for more than technique.
When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it's full of mistakes and repetitions. It's good to avoid that in literature, but still, a story should feel like a conversation. It's not a lecture.
I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
Today's girls are tomorrow's women - and leaders.
My son, the Holy Church is on the right, but Jesus Christ was always on the left.
The first two, three, four weeks are wasted. I just show up in front of the computer. Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. If she doesn't show up invited, eventually she just shows up.
So firm did Nivea's determination become that she wrote in her diary that she would give up marriage in order to devote herself completely to the struggle for women's suffrage. She was not aware that such a sacrifice would not be necessary, and that she would marry a man for love who would back her up in her political goals.
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.
Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent.
fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.
At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.
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.