843 Quotes by Isabel Allende

I carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones.

I rebelled against all form of authority, against my grandfather, my step-father, the Church, the police, the government, the bosses. Everything male that was there, and was determining my life.

And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.

I'm surrounded by young people. I'm always now the oldest and the shortest person in the room.

I write until the first draft is finished, and then I feel that I can get out. But, during the time of the writing of the first draft, I don't go out. I'm just locked away, writing. It's a time of meditation, of going into the story.

It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.

I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told, I print it, wait a week and read it.

I'm an expert. I can kill anybody and not be caught.

...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.