Quotes by chilean authors

You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living. Fernando Flores
Future You Living Able Risk Identity Than Bigger Your Present
A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring. Fernando Flores
Style Symptom Caring Lack
I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances. Fernando Flores
Circumstances Blamed Never External
I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom. Fernando Flores
Life Freedom Made My Life Own Live My Own Began Assessment
That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition. Fernando Flores
Halloween Our Doing Tradition Traditions Anything Against Little Why Defend
At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues. Gabriela Mistral
Stroke Direct Voice Indirect Poets Noble Am Undeserved Spanish Race Fortune Moment Tongues Portuguese
Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing. Isabel Allende
Life Healing Pain Everybody Our Unavoidable Sharing Losses Very
I have become an American citizen, and I love this country. I think that this country has incredible potential for goodness, an incredible possibility for doing the wrong thing, too. Isabel Allende
Love Citizen Country Wrong Thing Goodness Become Think Too Incredible Possibility Potential Wrong Doing American American Citizen Thing
If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die. Isabel Allende
Soul Would My Soul Write Dry Up Die
I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no idea, but I have learned to surrender to the muse. I become obsessed with a theme or with certain stories; they haunt me for years, and finally, I write them. Isabel Allende
Me Surrender Try Become Finally Tell No Idea Haunt Write Never Idea Obsessed Particular Message Learned Years Just Want Stories Story Them Convey Theme Certain Why Muse
I get thousands of letters, and they give me a feeling of how each book is perceived. Often I think I have written about a certain theme, but by reading the letters or reviews, I realise that everybody sees the book differently. Isabel Allende
Me Book Feeling Reading Think Everybody Thousands About Perceived Give Give Me Sees Written How Reviews Get Often Realise Theme Certain Each Letters Differently
At five I was already a feminist, and nobody used the word in Chile yet. Isabel Allende
Word Nobody Feminist Five Chile Used
The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on the TV screen and it becomes a place. And it exists for three weeks, and then it disappears into thin air. Isabel Allende
Conflict World Three Starts Air TV Weeks Disappears Becomes Exist Exists Up American Afghanistan Screen Place Then Pops Sudden Thin
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. Isabel Allende
You Beauty Shortcuts Research Believe Summer Books Pleasure Must Only Thrillers Mystery Read Loopholes Self-Help Because Romance Fiction
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
Death Freedom Loyalty Me Justice Writing Political Some Haunt Until Coming Issues End Up Stories Interest Social Them Themes Certain Social Issues Keep Violence
We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged. Isabel Allende
Life Quality World Preserved Everybody Enriched Only Quality Of Life Privileged Where Want
Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets. Isabel Allende
Women World Own One Percent Percent Although Labor Than Less Assets Two-Thirds
The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses. Isabel Allende
Life Lie First Whatever Chronological Chaos Some Gives Author Order Fiction Chooses
I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story. Isabel Allende
Sometimes Journalist Objective Invented Could Never Lousy Story Whole
I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make everyone around me happy. Isabel Allende
Family Me Happy Everyone Liberated Way Marry Born Supposed Make Around Female Person Any Patriarchal
The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years. Isabel Allende
Myself Experience Living Find Fact Writer Venezuela Am Years Years And Years Being Where Place Cut Roots Away
I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told, I print it, wait a week and read it. Isabel Allende
Me Wait Try Tell Only Week Read Print Go Intellect Front Just Screen Story Then Page Whole Let Go
I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently. Isabel Allende
Life My Life All My Life Only Been Realized Recently
I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it. Isabel Allende
Change Woman Only Like Been Years Realized Recently
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
Love Reality Confusion Circumstances Out Write Most Sort Because Understand Demons
I like Hillary Clinton a lot. I know her. Isabel Allende
Like Know Hillary Hillary Clinton Clinton Lot Her
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