Isabel Allende Quotes - Page 4

The source of my difficulties has always been the same: an inability to accept what to others seems natural, and an irresistible tendency to voice opinions no one wants to hear . . .

Today's girls are tomorrow's women - and leaders.

you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction

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.

Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.

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.

Give, give, give-what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away?

Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape....For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket; life would be a very dark and narrow place.

Affection is like the noonday sun; it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.

Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.

You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.

Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.

Everyone in his place and a place for everyone.

Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.

Many children fly like birds, guess other people's dreams, and speak with ghosts, but ... they all outgrow it when they lose their innocence.

Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me.

Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win, men as much as women.

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.

Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.

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?

Having a point to start is important. You know that when you decide to write something it's like a commitment. It's like falling in love.

How accommodating love is; it forgives everything.

Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we are born anew, and with each love that ends we collect a new wound. I am covered with proud scars.

With women the best aphrodisiac is words.

I had a very rough childhood and not a happy one and by age 15 I was an old person in many ways. I knew that I had to take care of myself, I um and I always did.