“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.” KnowsDoneAgeTimeWaterHoursGoneSalt Book:The Infinite Plan: A Novel Source: The Infinite Plan: A Novel
“You write a book and it's like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. You don't know if it will ever reach any shores. And there, you see, sometimes it falls in the hands of the right person.” IfsKnowsWritingPersonsBookSometimesHandsFallOceanMessagesBottlesShoreThrowingRight PersonMessage In A Bottle Author:Isabel Allende
“Everyone has a story, the air is full of stories. The creative process is mysterious, I don't know why it is that suddenly a theme will take hold of me and refuse to leave me in peace until I investigate it and write it.” KnowsWritingStoriesProcessCreativeAirRefuseMysteriousThemeCreative ProcessLeaving MeEveryone Has A Story Author:Isabel Allende
“We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.” PeopleKnowsHumansWarStrongKnow HowSurvivalCapacityTragedyRenewalAmazing ThingsHuman CapacityHidden Strength Author:Isabel Allende
“Young women don't want to be called feminists because it's not sexy and ah they think that their mothers and grandmothers have achieved everything they want. They don't know how poor women live, how women in rural places live, how 80 percent of women in the world are the poorest of the poor, how still there are 27 million slaves, and most of them women and girls.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWantStillsYoungMotherGirlPoorMillionsKnow HowPercentSlaveFeministSexyGrandmotherYoung WomenPoorestMother And Grandmother Author:Isabel Allende
“Life is very mysterious and there are many things we don't know. And there are elements of magic realism in every culture, everywhere. It's just accepting that we don't know everything and everything is possible.” KnowsLife IsCultureAcceptingMagicElementsMysteriousRealismMagic Realism Author:Isabel Allende
“It's good for a writer to come from journalism because it gives you the tools. A journalist knows that he or she can lose the reader in six lines, so try to keep the attention of the reader. Also, you learn to research, and to conduct an interview - to extract from the person whatever you need from that person.” KnowsNeedsGivingTryingPersonsLosesLinesAttentionReaderSixResearchToolsJournalismJournalistInterviews Author:Isabel Allende
“Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.” KnowsMenLittlesKnow HowWisePrivilegeHumbleIgnorantConceit Author:Isabel Allende
“I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that can possibly happen.” KnowsFeelsWritingHappensAcceptingMysteryPossibility Author:Isabel Allende
“I do not put myself in a box and say, for instance, I'm writing post-colonial literature. I don't know what I'm writing. That's the business of professors and critics. My job is to tell a story, and that's it.” KnowsWritingStoriesJobsLiteratureCriticsBoxesInstancePostsProfessors Author:Isabel Allende
“Having a point to start is important. You know that when you decide to write something it's like a commitment. It's like falling in love.” KnowsWritingImportantFallCommitmentFalling In Love Author:Isabel Allende
“Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to combine those, I think. The great marriages, the great couples I know, have both.” ThinkingKnowsTryingSexLove IsEmotionCouplePassionateRomantic LoveGreat Marriage Author:Isabel Allende
“At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back to comfort me with the notion that abundance is always within reach, if only one knows how to find it.” IfsKnowsMomentsDifficultKnow HowDoorsComfortTasteNotionAbundanceWithin ReachDifficult MomentsApricots Author:Isabel Allende
“I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.” KnowsWorldHumansSaidWantedStrongHuman BeingsLossInterestingCasesKnow HowStrengthSeparationExposedHappy LifeI Have LearnedResilientHidden Strength Author:Isabel Allende
“I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don't know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy.” IfsKnowsLoveCareJoyMotherDogSonHusbandLike MeMy HusbandMy SonAdoreGrandchildrenWho CaresMy DogMy Grandchildren Author: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.” KnowsWritingMadeRememberFormLyingProcessImaginationMemoriesBrainFictionElementsBunchMemoir Author:Isabel Allende
