Isabel Allende Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Muse, Shows

  "Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do". Book by Meredith Maran, 2013.

• Write what should not be forgotten.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Forgotten, Should

  Isabel Allende, William Knowlton Zinsser (1989). “Paths of Resistance: The Art and Craft of the Political Novel”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• 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.

  Isabel Allende

  Loyalty, Writing, Issues

• If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Dry Up, Soul

• If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Too Much, Persons

• I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.

  Isabel Allende

  Love, Dream, Writing

• Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Worry, Making Love

• That is the best part of writing: finding the hidden treasures, giving sparkle to worn out events, invigorating the tired soul with imagination, creating some kind of truth with many lies.

  Isabel Allende

  Lying, Writing, Tired

• I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it!

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Reality, Confusion

• Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.

  Isabel Allende

  Memories, Writing, Journey

• From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview, to find information, to research, and above all, to use language as efficiently as possible and to remember always that there is a reader out there.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Space, Pressure

• Writing is a constant exercise in longing.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Exercise, Longing

  Twitter post from May 19, 2014

• 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.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Two, Three

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

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Stories, Ends

  "Tales of passion". TED Talks, www.ted.com. March, 2007.

• After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Silence, Able

• As I travel through life, I gather experiences that lie imprinted on the deepest strata of memory, and there they ferment, are transformed, and sometimes rise to the surface and sprout like strange plants from other worlds. What is the fertile humus of the subconscious composed of? Why are certain images converted into recurrent themes in nightmares or writing?

  Isabel Allende

  Memories, Lying, Writing

• write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.

  Isabel Allende

  Honesty, Hate, Writing

• January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them have been well received by the readers. I write eight to ten hours a day until I have a first draft, then I can relax a little. I am very disciplined. I write in silence and solitude. I light a candle to call inspiration and the muses, and I surround myself with pictures of the people I love, dead and alive.

  Isabel Allende

  Book, Inspiration, Writing

• I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Impact, Stronger

  "Conversation with Isabel Allende". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.feminist.com.

• Writing is a calling, not a choice.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Choices, Calling

• 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.

  Isabel Allende

  Jobs, Writing, Stories

  "Isabel Allende: Despite Terrorism, the World Is a Better Place Now Than Ever Before". Interview with Michael Skafidas, www.huffingtonpost.com.

• I'm not a fan of mysteries, so to prepare for this experience of writing a mystery I started reading the most successful ones in the market in 2012. And I realized I cannot write that kind of book. It's too gruesome, too violent, too dark; there's no redemption there.

  Isabel Allende

  Book, Reading, Writing

  "The Mystery Of Isabel Allende: Author Explores New Genre". "All Things Considered" with Kelly McEvers, nwpr.org. January 25, 2014.

• I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Years, I Have Learned

• It is absurd to imagine that any child will be able to earn a living, let alone contribute to resolving our world's complex problems, without knowing how to read and write. My foundation supports the National Writing Project so that teachers can be more effective in their efforts to improve literacy for all students.

  Isabel Allende

  Teacher, Children, Writing

• No complaining about how hard it is to write, we are all so, so lucky to write, to sit down, inside, and write words on paper. There is no greater freedom, no greater good, nothing that brings more joy.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Joy, Complaining

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