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Isabel Allende, born on August 2, 1942, is a renowned Chilean writer known for her magical realism style. Her works have gained widespread popularity, with notable titles including 'Love in the Time of Cholera' and 'The House of the Spirits'.

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“All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.”

Writing Ends Stories Interest Social Issues

Author:Isabel Allende

“Humanity has this need to hear stories because they connect us with other people, they teach us about our own feelings. We feel less lonely when we see other people going through the same things, even if they're fictional characters.”

People Ifs Needs Feels Character Stories Feelings Humanity Teach Lonely Fictional Character

Author:Isabel Allende

“My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.”

Book Stories Memories Written Personal Experiences

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.”

Knows Writing Stories Process Creative Air Refuse Mysterious Theme Creative Process Leaving Me Everyone Has A Story

Author:Isabel Allende

“I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later.”

Needs Stories Grows Deals Seeds Obsession Sooner Or Later Tumors

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.”

Knows Writing Stories Jobs Literature Critics Boxes Instance Posts Professors

Author:Isabel Allende

“More and more books are published every year. If people were not reading them, they wouldn't be published. We are in a different moment. We are now reading electronic books or whatever else, but people are still reading, and people still need stories.”

People Ifs Needs Years Stills Book Stories Reading

Author:Isabel Allende

“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.”

Feels Should Stills Stories Literature Mistake Conversation Kitchen Repetition Lectures

Author:Isabel Allende

“When I write fiction, I never try to deliver a message; I just want to tell a story. But I admit that I want the story to be memorable and the characters to touch the reader's heart.”

Want Writing Trying Heart Character Stories Fiction Reader Messages Memorable

Author:Isabel Allende

“I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.”

Stories Rooted Place And Time Sense Of Place

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“Before I start writing, before I have an idea of where and when the story happens, I research it thoroughly.”

Writing Ideas Stories Happens Research

Author:Isabel Allende

“I get hundreds of emails daily and a lot of feedback from people that are reading or have read my books. When I'm writing, or in my daily life, I just think of the work. I love to tell a story, but I might work with a story to make it the best I can without thinking of how many people will read it or if it will influence anybody.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing I Can Book Stories Might Reading Influence Daily Life Email Feedback

Author:Isabel Allende

“Sometimes journalists ask me, "What's the message?" There is no message. I think that fiction should not be trying to give messages. Just tell a story.”

Thinking Giving Should Trying Sometimes Stories Asks Fiction Messages Journalist Ask Me

Author:Isabel Allende

“Some people connect with a story and may find between the lines something that might be useful to him or her, but that's not the intention of the author, I think. At least not mine.”

People Thinking May Stories Might Lines Mines Intention Between The Lines

Author:Isabel Allende

“I've been so thoroughly incorporated into the California culture that I practice meditation and go to a therapist, even though I always set a trap: during my meditation I invent stories to keep from being bored, and in therapy I invent stories to keep from boring the psychologist.”

Stories Culture Practice Meditation Boring Bored California Therapy Traps Psychologist Therapists Being Bored

Author:Isabel Allende

“Each of us chooses the tone for telling his or her own story. I would like to choose the durable clarity of a platinum print, but nothing in my destiny possesses the luminosity. I live among diffuse shadings, veiled mysteries, uncertainties; the tone of telling my life is closer to that of a portrait in sepia.”

Stories Life Is Destiny Mystery Clarity Uncertainty Tone Print Portraits My Destiny Platinum

Book:Conversations with Isabel Allende: Revised Edition

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“A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration.”

Hard Stories Inspiration Novel Hard Work Short Story

Author:Isabel Allende

“All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.”

Writing Ends Stories Political Certain Social Interest Justice Issues Violence Loyalty Theme Social Issues Social Service

Author:Isabel Allende

“I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans.”

Firsts Stories Wanted Fiction First Time Historical Historical Fiction New Orleans

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“I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.”

Sometimes Whole Stories Objectives Journalist

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

Stories I Realized

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“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.”

People World May I Can Different Stories One Thing Communicate

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“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.”

Trying Whole Stories Waiting Week Fronts Letting Go Pages Intellect Screens Print

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“If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.”

Ifs Way Life Stories Colour

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“What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.”

Stories Answers

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“Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.”

Ifs World Giving Stories Wealth Knowledge Learning Share Talent Divine Management

Author:Isabel Allende

“Sisters: talk to each other, be connected and informed, form women's circles, share your stories, work together, and take risks. Together we are invincible.”

Stories Together Form Risk Share Connected Circles Working Together Strong Women Invincible

Author:Isabel Allende

About the Author

Born: August 2, 1942
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 469

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