I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.

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• Isabel Allende:

  Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

• Isabel Allende:

  I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.

• Isabel Allende:

  I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.

• Isabel Allende:

  I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with peo

• Isabel Allende:

  I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in th

• Isabel Allende:

  I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patria

• Isabel Allende:

  The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in

• Isabel Allende:

  I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of m

• Isabel Allende:

  I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a

• Isabel Allende:

  I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longe