Isabel Allende quotes - page 6

My son, the Holy Church is on the right, but Jesus Christ was always on the left. (Isabel Allende)
January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them have been well received by the readers. I write eight to ten hours a day until I have a first draft, then I can relax a little. I am very disciplined. I write in silence and solitude. I light a candle to call inspiration and the muses, and I surround myself with pictures of the people I love, dead and alive. View quote
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She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe fruit, running through the fields with Pedro Tercero, was she smiling and happy. Her mother said that that was the real Blanca, and that the other one, the one back in the city, was a Blanca in hibernation. View quote
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I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals. View quote
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I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it. View quote
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I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make everyone around me happy. View quote
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Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art. View quote
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I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes from blending cultures. There's no way that you can close the frontiers anywhere. The borders are there to be violated permanently. View quote
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I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes. View quote
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I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile. View quote
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Because she lived under the big umbrella of my grandfather and she didn't have any education - she had three kids, had been abandoned by her husband, had no money - it was a horrible life. The only way she could get attention from her father or anybody else was by being sick. She didn't do it consciously. As a child I felt impotent and guilty because I felt that I couldn't help her in any way. (Isabel Allende)