Writing is a calling, not a choice. Isabel Allende More Quotes by Isabel Allende More Quotes From Isabel Allende When you make an omelet, as when you make love, affection counts for more than technique. Isabel Allende affection making-love technique 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. Isabel Allende reading would-be dark if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one? Isabel Allende society imagination perfect I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic. Isabel Allende dream writing love 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. Isabel Allende childhood care age 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. Isabel Allende heart character book We don't have an explanation for everything that happens. We don't control almost anything. And if we are not open to that mystery, life becomes so small. Isabel Allende explanation mystery happens Many children fly like birds, guess other people's dreams, and speak with ghosts, but ... they all outgrow it when they lose their innocence. Isabel Allende dream children people Those who seek the truth run the risk of finding it. Isabel Allende findings risk running Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed. Isabel Allende daughter mother children The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality. Isabel Allende real fear believe 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 latin memories 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. Isabel Allende falling-in-love writing commitment 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. Isabel Allende women inspiring children If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving. Isabel Allende too-much persons writing Words are not that important when you recognize intentions. Isabel Allende intention important At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back to comfort me with the notion that abundance is always within reach, if only one knows how to find it. Isabel Allende apricots comfort doors Nothing's as dangerous as power with impunity. Isabel Allende impunity dangerous My female protagonist will not be this promiscuous, beautiful, dark-haired, thin lady. It will be a plump, blond, healer and so forth. Isabel Allende female dark beautiful The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night. Isabel Allende library pages night
