Isabel Allende Quotes
Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
Quotes to Explore
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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
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I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.
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Hard writing makes easy reading.
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I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book.
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history.
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I would love to do Broadway again.
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Writing is a form of licensed madness.
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My signature look is an eighties baby doll dress, combat boots with colorful socks sticking out, and then mounds of jewelry. I love silver and turquoise. I go to Montana every winter, so I hunt around for cool pieces there.
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Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
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People ask what I really did in the three years between 'The Dreaming' and 'Hounds of Love.' I spent it with my family, living a normal home life.
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I don't watch television, but I saw 'The Office' by accident. I thought it was so sophisticated, the Victorian love story, and so bold. We'd do anything, all of us, to not work in that environment, and then I'm sitting there watching hours of it.
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I'm so convinced that hiking helps my writing that I recently decided to offer a series of hiking-writing workshops to see if others had the same experience.
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In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely.
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Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.
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There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it.
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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
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To love is to act.
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The people who are writing online and the people in my genre of creative non-fiction exert a great deal more freedom that journalists are allowed to exert in their day-to-day work.
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My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.
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I'm writing a book about Siamese Twins that are attached at the nose. It's called: Stop Staring at Me!
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Whoever prays is certainly saved. He who does not is certainly damned. All the blessed have been saved by prayer. All the damned have been lost through not praying. If they had prayed they would not have been lost. And this is, and will be their greatest torment in hell: to think how easily they might have been saved, just by asking God for His grace, but that now it is too late - their time of prayer is gone.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
