The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing Isabel Allende More Quotes by Isabel Allende More Quotes From Isabel Allende Life is very mysterious and there are many things we don't know. And there are elements of magic realism in every culture, everywhere. It's just accepting that we don't know everything and everything is possible. Isabel Allende magic-realism elements culture I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how. Isabel Allende freak my-own want Women age more in company because they have more relationships. Men have buddies. They have acquaintances, they have comrades. Friends as women have, the friends that of the soul that you share everything, that you witness each other's lives, that you talk their, your, heart out, that you cry with, that you ask money when you need, that. Isabel Allende soul heart men Everyone has a story, the air is full of stories. The creative process is mysterious, I don't know why it is that suddenly a theme will take hold of me and refuse to leave me in peace until I investigate it and write it. Isabel Allende creative air writing I don't think that we have to look like the models in the magazines because they are 19 year olds and they have been photo shopped extensively, not but given what I, we have as the raw material, take care of it. Isabel Allende raw-materials years thinking Dying is not easy. It's a very hard transition. Isabel Allende transition dying easy Young women don't want to be called feminists because it's not sexy and ah they think that their mothers and grandmothers have achieved everything they want. They don't know how poor women live, how women in rural places live, how 80 percent of women in the world are the poorest of the poor, how still there are 27 million slaves, and most of them women and girls. Isabel Allende sexy girl mother My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters of my novels are females. Isabel Allende emotions-feelings character book My mum said that as you age you have to smell good and be clean and don't hate anybody because that makes you older. Um I don't agree. I think that of course you have to smell good and be clean but there's much more that you have to do. Don't complain, exercise, be be strong, um work, be creative, be related to the world, have causes, fight for them passionately. I think all those things are important. I I'm not going to give up and just smell good. Isabel Allende giving-up hate strong When my daughter Paula died, I was in the deepest pain, and my mother said, "This kind of sorrow is like a long, narrow, dark channel. You have to walk this channel alone and be sure that there is light at the other ending. Just keep walking." Isabel Allende daughter pain mother It's such an intimate and profound relationship that it cannot be unconditional. I can only compare the intimacy of sex with the intimacy of the mother with a newborn baby. But with a newborn baby, it is unconditional. Isabel Allende mother baby sex The success occurs in a place outside of me, and doesn't touch me on an intimate level. I live in my own skin, I have not changed greatly, I remain the same woman. Isabel Allende intimate levels skins We only appreciate what we have when we lose it. Isabel Allende loses appreciate I am very optimistic because I have seen the changes in my lifetime. I have seen the world change for the better. We always think that present times is terrible, that what's happening today, it was never worse, that the world is going in the most awful direction. But I think that the world that my grandchildren will have will be better than the one I had when I turned 20. Isabel Allende grandchildren optimistic thinking The biggest straitjacket is all the prejudices that we carry around, and all the fears. But what if we just surrender to the fear? There are things greater than fear. The great, wonderful quality of human beings is that we can overcome even absolute terror, and we do. Isabel Allende what-if quality overcoming 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 style writing book I'm open to love, and I think that I will fall in love with a wonderful man. Isabel Allende falling-in-love men thinking People are afraid of falling in love because they don't want to suffer. Isabel Allende falling-in-love love-is people 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 possibility mystery writing For women in my lifetime things have changed quite a bit, but not enough. They have only changed for women that have education and access to health care in the Western world. But look at the rest of the world. Still in many places, women are sold into premature marriages, prostitution, forced labor; they are forced to have children that they cannot support or that they don't want. They are abused, tortured, exploited and even killed with impunity. Isabel Allende support children looks
