Isabel Allende Quotes & Sayings (Page 13)

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

“Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.”

“I'm a writer. In Latin America, they say I'm a Latin-American writer because I also write in Spanish and my books are translated, but I am an American citizen and my books are published here, so I'm also an American writer.”

“Everything I write has to be connected to my life. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women.”

“I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.”

“I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.”

“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.”