Chilean - Writer | August 2, 1942 -
My mother is a great artist, but she always treated her paintings like minor postcards. Had she pursued it, she would have been a great artist. Instead, she looked down on her art.
Isabel Allende
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I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English.
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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.
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Everything I write has to be connected to my life. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women.
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I never thought that I would come to live in the United States. I was not pursuing the American dream.
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The longest, most solid and complex relationship in my life is with my mother. It started before I was born, and now, when I am 71 and living in California and she is 92 and living in Chile, we are still in touch daily.
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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.
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