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It is in giving that I connec...

It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.

Isabel Allende 349 quotes

I write until the first draft...

I write until the first draft is finished, and then I feel that I can get out. But, during the time of the writing of the first draft, I don't go out. I'm just locked away, writing. It's a time of meditation, of going into the story.

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I have written about Chile ex...

I have written about Chile extensively, and therefore I have read many books on the subject, mostly for research.

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I never thought that I would ...

I never thought that I would come to live in the United States. I was not pursuing the American dream.

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I speak English and Spanish. ...

I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English.

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If I can write it, I can cope...

If I can write it, I can cope. And I've been writing many books, but in every book, I try to explore something in my own soul that I need to solve, I need to understand.

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My father left when I was thr...

My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in my life were my grandfather, in whose house I lived during the first 10 years of my childhood, and later my stepfather.

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All summer, I read fiction be...

All summer, I read fiction because you must read for the pleasure and beauty of it, and not only for research. 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.

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The longest, most solid and c...

The longest, most solid and complex relationship in my life is with my mother. It started before I was born, and now, when I am 71 and living in California and she is 92 and living in Chile, we are still in touch daily.

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Friendship is all about trust...

Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to combine those, I think. The great marriages, the great couples I know, have both.

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Show up, show up, show up, an...

Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. If she doesn’t show up invited, eventually she just shows up

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The source of my difficulties...

The source of my difficulties has always been the same: an inability to accept what to others seems natural, and an irresistible tendency to voice opinions no one wants to hear . . .

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Reading is like looking throu...

Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape....For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket; life would be a very dark and narrow place.

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You are my angel and my damna...

You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.

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As my Popo used to say, life ...

As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but I’m not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What’s done is done; I have to look ahead.

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Having a point to start is im...

Having a point to start is important. You know that when you decide to write something it's like a commitment. It's like falling in love.

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...when everything else fails...

...when everything else fails, we communicate in the language of the stars

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You are the storyteller of yo...

You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.

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Silence before being born, si...

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

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Every person is born with a t...

Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.

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