Isabel Allende Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.

  Isabel Allende

  Book, Heart, Character

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

  Isabel Allende

  Motivation, Nice, Inspiration

• Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages

  Isabel Allende

  Character, Grandmother, Care

  Isabel Allende (2003). “My invented country: a memoir”, HarperPerennial

• 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.

  Isabel Allende

  Lonely, Character, People

• My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters of my novels are females.

  Isabel Allende

  Book, Character, Emotions Feelings

  Interview with Marisel Mendoza, www.ventanalatina.co.uk. April 10, 2013.

• 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.

  Isabel Allende

  Memorable, Writing, Heart

  "Drugs, Rape and Political Terror: Interview With Isabel Allende on Her Latest Novel Maya’s Notebook". Interview with Christine Bronstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2013.

• I'm always following the characters and I'm always interested in what happens to them, but what happens to them is conditioned by the circumstances in which they live.

  Isabel Allende

  Character, Circumstances, Following

  "Author Isabel Allende". "Tell Tavis" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 12, 2010.

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