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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I'm really trying to respond to the foods that are in the stores and just pulling the things that are the very best and cook what looks beautiful and is seasonal. That's the way to go. I love going to the grocery store and the market. None of it's drudgery for me. Washing dishes is the drudgery.
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Sometimes, I don't even want to put on makeup. And sometimes, I feel so unattractive and blah.
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I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.
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The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'
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For the next approximately three years, I have got Nathan to take care of. I know that once he graduates from high school, he will be off doing whatever it is he is going to be doing - probably playing ice hockey.
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Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
