Isabel Allende Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)
Isabel Allende quotes and sayings page 5 (82 year old writer). Here's quote # 41 through 50 out of the 127 we have for her.
“My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.”
“The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.”
“If I had to choose between a relative and a good story, I would take the story.”
“My desk is like a 'U,' so I have my computer and lots of dictionaries because I write in Spanish and I live in English.”
“Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I have seldom suffered from lack of men.”
“One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a state or a city or a county, and move West, most of the time West. You leave behind guilt, past traditions, memories.”
“The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down.”
“I was a political refugee living in Venezuela. I had a job that was twelve hours a day, no money. It was a hard time.”
“I have been a foreigner all my life, first as a daughter of diplomats, then as a political refugee and now as an immigrant in the U.S. I have had to leave everything behind and start anew several times, and I have lost most of my extended family.”
“I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.”
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