Isabel Allende Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Isabel Allende quotes and sayings page 2 (82 year old writer). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 127 we have for her.
“A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.”
“I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.”
“All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.”
“Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.”
“I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.”
“Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.”
“I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.”
“If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.”
“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.”
“If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.”
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