In the words of Isabel Allende:
It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.
Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.
The world is a very unjust, unfair place and we have to live with that. Historically, there is impunity for most crimes.
Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.
My son, the Holy Church is on the right, but Jesus Christ was always on the left.
Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.
We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.
It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by giving them to others.
Before I start writing, before I have an idea of where and when the story happens, I research it thoroughly.
There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.
He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul.
You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.
What happens in the world affects me. Sometimes, that's part of the writing.
Write to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten.
The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.
In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.
I'm open to love, and I think that I will fall in love with a wonderful man.
Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.
You only have what you give. It’s by spending yourself that you become rich.
Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.
I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.
When a man's earning his living doing things he doesn't like, he feels like a slave; when he's doing what he loves, he feels like a prince.
Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.
Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent.
Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy.
I carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones.
Love is a free contract that begins with a spark and can end the same way.
Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.
When you make an omelet, as when you make love, affection counts for more than technique.
Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.
It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this.
write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.
My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.
Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.
For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.
You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.
Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.
I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something.
He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything.
Nothing changes; we humans repeat the same sins over and over, eternally.
Affection is like the noonday sun; it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.
Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing.
His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.
I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how.
I'm surrounded by young people. I'm always now the oldest and the shortest person in the room.
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