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Isabel Allende Biography

Isabel Allende (Spanish: [isaˈβel aˈʝende] ( listen); born August 2, 1942) is a Chilean writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the genre of "magical realism", is famous for novels such as The House of the Spirits (La casa de los espíritus, 1982) and City of the Beasts (La ciudad de las bestias, 2002), which have been commercially successful. Allende has been called "the world's most widely read Spanish-language author." In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2010, she received Chile's National Literature Prize. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans.

Fiction, Historical, Like, Love, New Orleans, Visited

True friendship resists time, distance and silence.

Distance, Friendship, Resists, Silence, Time, True Friend

Writing is a calling, not a choice.

Calling, Choice, Choices, Writing

Young women don't want to be called feminists because it's not sexy and ah they think that their mothers and grandmothers have achieved everything they want. They don't know how poor women live, how women in rural places live, how 80 percent of women in the world are the poorest of the poor, how still there are 27 million slaves, and most of them women and girls.

Girl, Live, Mother, Mothers, Percent, Sexy

I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

Bring, Peace, Promise, Prosperity, Working, Working Together

You only have what you give. It’s by spending yourself that you become rich.

Give, Giving, Rich, Spending

Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.

Accept, Accepting, Allow, Anxiety, Fear

I'm not willing to sign a contract. They want everything. They want the rights to do the movie and everything else they can think of, forever. There's no limit to the contract. In this universe and universes to be discovered - I'm not making this up - this is in the contract.

Discovered, Forever, Limit, Rights, Think, Thinking

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.

Dark, Looking, Prison, Reading, Windows, Would Be

Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives.

Fiction, Ignoring, Memories, Select, Tapestry

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.

Characters, Good, Inspiration, Motivation, Nice, Sense

I should say that I'm not conscious of any particular style or any particular literary device when I am writing. I have written 22 books, and they are all very different. I have tried all kinds of genres.

Book, Different, Style, Writing, Written

We are too connected. There's noise in our heads all the time.

Connected, Heads, Noise, Technology

Only that, nothing more - a tiny beam of light to show some hidden aspect of reality, to help decipher and understand it and thus to initiate, if possible, a change in the conscience of some readers.

Beam, Help, Light, Reality, Tiny

Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing.

Editing, Fiction, Happens, Mind

We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.

Enriched, Everybody, Preserved, Quality, Want, World

Cooking can be like foreplay.

Cooking, Foreplay, Like

Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone

Gone, Land, Sell, Should

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.

Interest, Issues, Loyalty, Violence, Writing

You have the health you deserve.

Deserve, Health

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