Top 126 Quotes by Isabel Allende

About Isabel Allende

These are some quotes by Chilean author Isabel Allende Writer, who was born on August 2, 1942.

I remember my childhood as a horrible time. My mother says that nothing so horrible ever happened to me as the things that I remember.

I remember my childhood as a horrible time. My mother says that nothing so horrible ever happened to me as the things that I remember.

Isabel Allende

I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours.

I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours.

Isabel Allende

You couldn't find two people more different than my mother and I. There are a thousand things about me that she fought against.

You couldn't find two people more different than my mother and I. There are a thousand things about me that she fought against.

Isabel Allende

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

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

Isabel Allende

I want to have an epic life. I want to tell my life with big adjectives. I want to forget all the grays in between, and remember the highlights and the dark moments.

I want to have an epic life. I want to tell my life with big adjectives. I want to forget all the grays in between, and remember the highlights and the dark moments.

Isabel Allende

The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.

The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.

Isabel Allende

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.

Isabel Allende

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

I have become an American citizen, and I love this country. I think that this country has incredible potential for goodness, an incredible possibility for doing the wrong thing, too.

I have become an American citizen, and I love this country. I think that this country has incredible potential for goodness, an incredible possibility for doing the wrong thing, too.

Isabel Allende

Writing is a calling, not a choice.

Writing is a calling, not a choice.

Isabel Allende

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