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The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing. Isabel Allende

Great Angry You People Try Think Books Say Fact Writer Readership Insult Lot Sell Get Little Such A Thing Serious Thing

I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals. Isabel Allende

People Overcome Obstacles Sheltered Umbrella Establishment Interested Who

Today's girls are tomorrow's women - and leaders. Isabel Allende

Today Women Tomorrow Girl Leaders

The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down. Isabel Allende

Women Down Those Backward Put Most Always Poorest Societies

Writing is a calling, not a choice. Isabel Allende

Writing Calling Choice

In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: 'No, no, no. You have to write a book with your husband.' My husband is a writer of crime novels. His name is William Gordon. And so I had to accommodate to his style because that's what he writes. So we decided we'd give it a try. Well, we almost divorced. Isabel Allende

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I have lived with passion and in a hurry, trying to accomplish too many things. I never had time to think about my beliefs until my 28-year-old daughter Paula fell ill. She was in a coma for a year, and I took care of her at home until she died in my arms in December of 1992. Isabel Allende

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I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours. Isabel Allende

Morning Sky Every Write Red Hours Up Get Early

Unfortunately for my family, they have a writer in the family. Isabel Allende

Family Writer Unfortunately

My mother didn't want me to be a feminist, a radical, political person, because she was scared. She wanted me to be protected and safe, but my life never was. Isabel Allende

Life Me Mother Political My Life Radical Scared Never Safe Protected She Because Feminist Person Want Wanted

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

Shortcuts Believe Books Thrillers Mystery Read Loopholes Self-Help Because Romance

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other. Isabel Allende

Death Balance Other Way Both Eros Very Close Each Things

I have written about Chile extensively, and therefore I have read many books on the subject, mostly for research. Isabel Allende

Research Books About Written Mostly Read Subject Chile Many Therefore

I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English. Isabel Allende

Speak Books Write Spanish English Published

If I can write it, I can cope. And I've been writing many books, but in every book, I try to explore something in my own soul that I need to solve, I need to understand. Isabel Allende

Soul Book Writing Try Own Every Books Solve Something My Own Write Understand Been Explore Many Cope Need

My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in my life were my grandfather, in whose house I lived during the first 10 years of my childhood, and later my stepfather. Isabel Allende

We have chosen to bring future generations into this world of rising seas and warming temperatures, droughts and floods, heat waves and wildfires, a world in which one in four mammals and one in eight birds are at risk of disappearing forever. While the damage we've done is irreversible, that doesn't give us the right to do nothing. Leonor Varela

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