Isabel Allende Quotes - Page 13

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• We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.

  Isabel Allende

  Appreciate, Loses

  Interview with Laura Flanders, www.counterpunch.org. June 06, 2003.

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• my husband, who is a lawyer, is very careful with words and with the truth. He thinks that the truth exists, and it's something that is beyond questioning, which I think is totally absurd. I have several versions of how we met and how wonderful he was and all that. At least twenty. And I'm sure that they are all true. He has one. And I'm positive that it's not true.

  Isabel Allende

  Truth, Husband, Thinking

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• It bothers them that instead of taking on the role of abandoned lover, I have become a happy wife. They relish seeing strong women like you and me humiliated. They cannot forgive us that we triumphed where so many others fail...Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is out of balance, in favor of men. That is why they work so hard to mistreat and destroy us.

  Isabel Allende

  Strong Women, Wife, Forgiving

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• 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

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• 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.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Mystery, Possibility

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

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• I should say that I'm not conscious of any particular style or any particular literary device when I am writing. I have written 22 books, and they are all very different. I have tried all kinds of genres.

  Isabel Allende

  Book, Writing, Style

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

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• If, for example, I saw my grandparents or my daughter for an instant, would I recognize them? Probably not, because in looking so hard for a way to keep them alive, remembering them in the most minimal details, I have been changing them, adorning them with qualities they may not have had. I have given them a destiny much more complex than the ones they lived.

  Isabel Allende

  Daughter, Destiny, Grandparent

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

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• Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.

  Isabel Allende

  Men, People, Answers

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• 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.

  Isabel Allende

  Book, Reading, Years

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

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• It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this.

  Isabel Allende

  Thinking, Silence, Going Away

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

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• I was born in the middle of World War II, the middle of the Holocaust; I was born when there was no declaration of human rights, when feminism was not an issue, when children were working in factories. I mean, today's world is a better place!

  Isabel Allende

  Children, War, Mean

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

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• I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.

  Isabel Allende

  Believe, Book, Self

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• Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave your gold in a tent with no guard and no one would touch it, but now all that has changed. The law of the jungle rules, the only ideology is greed. Don't let yourself be parted from your weapons, and always travel in pairs or groups, because this is a land of thieves.

  Isabel Allende

  Law, Land, Greed

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• People think that they will sit down and produce the great American novel in one sitting. It doesn't work that way. This is a very patient and meticulous work, and you have to do it with joy and love for the process, not for the outcome.

  Isabel Allende

  Thinking, People, Joy

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• 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.

  Isabel Allende

  Giving, Trying, Research

  Source: bigthink.com

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• And the truth is that if a writer is successful, you gain readers. It benefits all the writers. It's important for all the writers that as many of us as possible be successful.

  Isabel Allende

  Successful, Important, Benefits

  "Big Think Interview With Isabel Allende". Interview with Priya George, bigthink.com. May 3, 2010.

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• Cooking can be like foreplay.

  Isabel Allende

  Cooking

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• 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.

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• ​Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men.

  Isabel Allende

  Men, Balance, Males

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• I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are man's thought. We should not speak without reason.

  Isabel Allende

  Men, Gestures, Realizing

  Isabel Allende (2016). “The Stories of Eva Luna”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• She intended to swallow the world and he lived crushed by reality.

  Isabel Allende

  Reality, World, Crushed

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• I'm surrounded by the scene of aging. I myself am in my 70s and not getting any younger. Although I'm very healthy, and I have a lot of energy, and I still feel 50, I'm over 70 and I understand that I am preparing for later.

  Isabel Allende

  Healthy, Energy, Aging

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

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