Isabel Allende Quotes

Most popular Isabel Allende Quotes

With women the best aphrodisiac is words. - Isabel Allende quote.
With women the best aphrodisiac is words.
— Isabel Allende Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses

words sex aphrodisiac

Love is music, and sex is only the instrument. - Isabel Allende quote.
Love is music, and sex is only the instrument.
— Isabel Allende The Infinite Plan

sex

Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul. - Isabel Allende quote.
Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul.
— Isabel Allende Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses

conversation

The writer of good will carries a lamp to illuminate the dark corners. - Isabel Allende quote.
The writer of good will carries a lamp to illuminate the dark corners.
— Isabel Allende Paths of Resistance: The Art and Craft of the Political Novel

writers

There are few virtues a man can possess more erotic than culinary skill. - Isabel Allende quote.
There are few virtues a man can possess more erotic than culinary skill.
— Isabel Allende Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses

cooking

If we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one? - Isabel Allende quote.
If we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?
— Isabel Allende

perfection

When you make an omelet, as when you make love, affection counts for more than technique. - Isabel Allende quote.
When you make an omelet, as when you make love, affection counts for more than technique.
— Isabel Allende Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses
Affection is like the noonday sun; it does not need the presence of another to be manifest. - Isabel Allende quote.
Affection is like the noonday sun; it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.
— Isabel Allende Kingdom of the Golden Dragon

affection

Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing. - Isabel Allende quote.
Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing.
— Isabel Allende Why We Write

fiction

Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time. - Isabel Allende quote.
Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.
— Isabel Allende The Infinite Plan

talent

There are only two kinds of illness: those that are fatal and those that heal themselves in their proper time. - Isabel Allende quote.
There are only two kinds of illness: those that are fatal and those that heal themselves in their proper time.
— Isabel Allende The Infinite Plan

illness

For women the best aphrodisiacs are words.  The G-spot is in the ears.  He who looks for it below there is wasting his time. - Isabel Allende quote.
For women the best aphrodisiacs are words.  The G-spot is in the ears.  He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.
— Isabel Allende Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses

women

I can promise you that women working together—linked, informed, and educated—can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet. - Isabel Allende quote.
I can promise you that women working together—linked, informed, and educated—can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
— Isabel Allende

peace

I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later. - Isabel Allende quote.
I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later.
— Isabel Allende Why We Write

writing why I write

A book is not an end in itself; it is only a way to touch someone—a bridge extended across a space of loneliness and obscurity—and sometimes it is a way of winning other people to our causes. - Isabel Allende quote.
A book is not an end in itself; it is only a way to touch someone—a bridge extended across a space of loneliness and obscurity—and sometimes it is a way of winning other people to our causes.
— Isabel Allende Paths of Resistance: The Art and Craft of the Political Novel

books

You write a book and it's like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. You don't know if it will ever reach any shore.  And there, you see, sometimes it falls in the hands of the right person. - Isabel Allende quote.
You write a book and it's like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. You don't know if it will ever reach any shore.  And there, you see, sometimes it falls in the hands of the right person.
— Isabel Allende Writers Dreaming

writing