843 Quotes by Isabel Allende

The writer of good will carries a lamp to illuminate the dark corners.

Everything I write has to be connected to my life. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women.

Before the military coup in Chile, we had the idea that military coups happen in Banana Republics, somewhere in Central America. It would never happen in Chile. Chile was such a solid democracy. And when it happened, it had brutal characteristics.

Peace requires everyone to be in the circle - wholeness, inclusion.

Society decides when we get old. But the spirit never ages.

Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.

How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?

When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it's full of mistakes and repetitions. It's good to avoid that in literature, but still, a story should feel like a conversation. It's not a lecture.

I'm a writer. In Latin America, they say I'm a Latin-American writer because I also write in Spanish and my books are translated, but I am an American citizen and my books are published here, so I'm also an American writer.