843 Quotes by Isabel Allende

Writing is like making love. Don’t worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.

You can’t find someone who doesn’t want to be found.

I don’t want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.

Life is very mysterious and there are many things we don’t know. And there are elements of magic realism in every culture, everywhere. It’s just accepting that we don’t know everything and everything is possible.

Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony – the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.

I’m not above anybody. I’m, I’m not better than anybody. I am made of the same material that everybody else is and if somebody can be a saint, so can I and if somebody can be a torturer, so can I.

We are too connected. There’s noise in our heads all the time.

Humanity has this need to hear stories because they connect us with other people, they teach us about our own feelings. We feel less lonely when we see other people going through the same things, even if they’re fictional characters.

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