Isabel Allende Quotes about Memories

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...memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the

...memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously.

Isabel Allende

Memories, Believe, Past

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

Isabel Allende

Memories, Animal, Blow

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

My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of those things made me melancholy, because I came into the world with a breath of the jungle in my memory.

Isabel Allende

Mother, Memories, Latin

Isabel Allende (1989). “Eva Luna”, Bantam

Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives.

Isabel Allende

Memories, Fiction, Select

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

Isabel Allende

Memories, Writing, Journey

My grandfather was dying, and told the family he had decided to die. ... At that moment I wanted so badly to write and tell him that he was never going to die, that somehow he would always be present in my life, because he had a theory that death didn't exist, only forgetfulness did. He believed that if you can keep people in your memory, they will live forever. That's what he did with my grandmother.

Isabel Allende

Memories, Writing, Grandmother

Isabel Allende, John Rodden (2004). “Conversations with Isabel Allende: Revised Edition”, p.55, University of Texas Press

There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, I know that I'm using a bunch of lies that I've made up to create some form of truth. When I write a memoir, I'm using true elements to create something that will always be somehow fictionalized.

Isabel Allende

Memories, Lying, Writing

Interview with Jordan E. Rosenfeld, www.writersdigest.com. August 27, 2008.

I've been a foreigner for the past twenty years. I don't have roots anymore. My roots are in my memory and my writing. That's why memory is so important. Who are you but what you can remember?

Isabel Allende

Memories, Writing, Past

One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a state or a city or a county, and move West, most of the time West. You leave behind guilt, past traditions, memories. You are as if born again, in the sense of the snake: You leave your skin behind and you begin again. For most people in the world, that is totally impossible.

Isabel Allende

Memories, Moving, Past

Isabel Allende, John Rodden (1999). “Conversations with Isabel Allende”, Univ of Texas Pr