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Isabel Allende Quotes - Page 13

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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.

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.

Writing, Two, Three

In my lifetime, the world has become better, not worse. And the world is moving, very slowly but surely with more democracy and more liberal way of thinking, more inclusion and more diversity.

Moving, Thinking, Diversity

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

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.

Believe, Book, Self

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

Reality, World, Crushed

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.

Balance, Way, Eros

"Isabel Allende discusses new book on sex and food". "CNN Sunday Morning" with Miles O'Brien, www.cnn.com. March 31, 1998.

So firm did Nivea's determination become that she wrote in her diary that she would give up marriage in order to devote herself completely to the struggle for women's suffrage. She was not aware that such a sacrifice would not be necessary, and that she would marry a man for love who would back her up in her political goals.

Love, Determination, Giving Up

A novel is like a window, open to an infinite landscape.

Landscape, Window, Infinite

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

We need a global approach to this from all sides. We need to educate people, we need the scientists to create new technologies, we need the engineers to create the networks, we need every human being to be aware of how precious water is and save it. Everybody has to be involved in a very firm and assertive way.

Technology, People, Water

I come from the so-called Third World (what is the Second)?

World, Thirds, Third World

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

The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.

Cutting, Years, Roots

A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.

Writing, Exercise, Mirrors

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.

Men, Balance, Males

A book is not an end in itself; it is only a way to touch someone - a bridge extended across a space of loneliness and obscurity - and sometimes it is a way of winning other people to our causes.

Loneliness, Book, Winning

Isabel Allende (1989). “Paths of resistance: the art and craft of the political novel”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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.

Men, Gestures, Realizing

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

Write to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten.

Writing, Names, Forgotten

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

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.

Law, Land, Greed

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.

Successful, Important, Benefits

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

Happiness is pure kitch; we come into the world to suffer and learn.

Suffering, World, Pure

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

Struggle, Grief, Writing

I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something.

Book, Reading, Thinking

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.

Book, Writing, Style

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

His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.

Wind, Justice, Indifference

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