Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende; born 2 August 1942) is a Chilean-American writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the "magic realist" tradition, is famous for novels such as The House of the Spiritsand City of the Beasts, which have been commercially successful. Allende has been called "the world's most widely read Spanish-language author". In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2010, she received Chile's National Literature Prize. President Barack Obama awarded her the...
NationalityChilean
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 August 1942
CityLima, Peru
CountryChile
You only have what you give. It’s by spending yourself that you become rich.
I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later.
Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.
We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.
You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.
You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.
There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.
Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.
Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.
It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by giving them to others.
I'm going to send you by fax a list of ingredients. And I want you to come up with recipes for lovers that (are) easy. Because if you're going to spend the day cooking, you won't have any energy left for love-making.
...when everything else fails, we communicate in the language of the stars
Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win, men as much as women.
Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win, men as much as women.