Quotes from Isabel Allende
You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.
- Isabel Allende
It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.
- Isabel Allende
At five I was already a feminist, and nobody used the word in Chile yet.
- Isabel Allende
Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it.
- Isabel Allende
We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.
- Isabel Allende
In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.
- Isabel Allende
Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.
- Isabel Allende
My mother didn't want me to be a feminist, a radical, political person, because she was scared. She wanted me to be protected and safe, but my life never was.
- Isabel Allende
Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never do. I don't think journalism clashes with my fiction; on the contrary, it helps enormously.
- Isabel Allende
I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
- Isabel Allende
I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that can possibly happen.
- Isabel Allende
Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.
- Isabel Allende