843 Quotes by Isabel Allende

Writers speak for those who are kept in silence.

The wise man desires nothing; he does not judge, he makes no plans, he keeps his mind open and his.

I’ve been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.

Pain is unavoidable, but suffering is optional.

The spotless order of barracks and the artificial peace of fear reigned everywhere.

I’ve been a foreigner for the past twenty years. I don’t have roots anymore. My roots are in my memory and my writing. That’s why memory is so important. Who are you but what you can remember?

What’s the worst thing about growing old?” she would ask them. They never thought about their age, was a common reply; they had once been adolescents, then they were thirty, fifty, sixty, and never gave it a thought, so why should they do so now?

There was no defense against the shells, he said, but they had calculated that three volumes of philosophy could stop bullets.

The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn’t find a place for myself, for years and years.