843 Quotes by Isabel Allende

I went to a mystery writers conference ... and I learned a lot not only from the faculty - and in the faculty we had forensic doctors, detectives, policemen, experts in guns, etc. - but from the questions of the students.

I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it.

Sometimes journalists ask me, "What's the message?" There is no message. I think that fiction should not be trying to give messages. Just tell a story.

I never thought that I would come to live in the United States. I was not pursuing the American dream.

I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.

If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die.

People come from internally, from other places in the United States, but also displaced people from other parts of the world. They come here. If you walk in the streets of San Francisco, you hear all the languages. You smell all the foods. You listen to the music from everywhere. There's great diversity.

It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.

Some people connect with a story and may find between the lines something that might be useful to him or her, but that's not the intention of the author, I think. At least not mine.