Isabel Allende Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Muse, Shows

  "Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do". Book by Meredith Maran, 2013.

• Write what should not be forgotten.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Forgotten, Should

  Isabel Allende, William Knowlton Zinsser (1989). “Paths of Resistance: The Art and Craft of the Political Novel”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• 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.

  Isabel Allende

  Loyalty, Writing, Issues

• If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Dry Up, Soul

• If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Too Much, Persons

• I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.

  Isabel Allende

  Love, Dream, Writing

• Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Worry, Making Love

• That is the best part of writing: finding the hidden treasures, giving sparkle to worn out events, invigorating the tired soul with imagination, creating some kind of truth with many lies.

  Isabel Allende

  Lying, Writing, Tired

• I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it!

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Reality, Confusion

• Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.

  Isabel Allende

  Memories, Writing, Journey

• From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview, to find information, to research, and above all, to use language as efficiently as possible and to remember always that there is a reader out there.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Space, Pressure

• Writing is a constant exercise in longing.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Exercise, Longing

  Twitter post from May 19, 2014

• The first two, three, four weeks are wasted. I just show up in front of the computer. 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.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Two, Three

• All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Stories, Ends

  "Tales of passion". TED Talks, www.ted.com. March, 2007.

• After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Silence, Able

• As I travel through life, I gather experiences that lie imprinted on the deepest strata of memory, and there they ferment, are transformed, and sometimes rise to the surface and sprout like strange plants from other worlds. What is the fertile humus of the subconscious composed of? Why are certain images converted into recurrent themes in nightmares or writing?

  Isabel Allende

  Memories, Lying, Writing

• 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.

  Isabel Allende

  Book, Inspiration, Writing

• write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.

  Isabel Allende

  Honesty, Hate, Writing

• What happens in the world affects me. Sometimes, that's part of the writing.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, World, Sometimes

  "Isabel Allende: Despite Terrorism, the World Is a Better Place Now Than Ever Before". Interview with Michael Skafidas, www.huffingtonpost.com.

• If you write nonfiction, a historical account of what really happened, first of all, it's always White men who do that and you don't have the voices that are really interesting to me, of the people who are not sheltered by the big umbrella of the establishment.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Men, White Man

  "Author Isabel Allende". "Tell Tavis" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 12, 2010.

• Write to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Names, Forgotten

  Isabel Allende, William Knowlton Zinsser (1989). “Paths of Resistance: The Art and Craft of the Political Novel”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Everyone has a story, the air is full of stories. The creative process is mysterious, I don't know why it is that suddenly a theme will take hold of me and refuse to leave me in peace until I investigate it and write it.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Air, Creative

  Interview with Marisel Mendoza, www.ventanalatina.co.uk. April 10, 2013.

• I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that can possibly happen.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Mystery, Possibility

  "Isabel Allende: Despite Terrorism, the World Is a Better Place Now Than Ever Before". Interview with Michael Skafidas, www.huffingtonpost.com.

• The first few months of my life of every year are in total retreat. I don't see anybody except my husband and my dog, I don't talk to anybody, and I just write.

  Isabel Allende

  Dog, Husband, Writing

  "Author Isabel Allende". "Tell Tavis" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 12, 2010.

• My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

  Isabel Allende

  Struggle, Grief, Writing

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