I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure ther... -Isabel Allende

I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to write about? No ghosts, no fear. I'm very happy that I had an unhappy and uncomfortable childhood.

Isabel Allende Quotes to Explore

My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses....

I read on my iPad when I travel. I listen to audiobooks in the car. I read books in my bedroom, where I have a comfortable couch, a lamp and two dogs ...

I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to write about? No ghosts, no fe...

We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do a...

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

From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview, to find informati...

Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her ch...

There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, ...

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse....

A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most ...

Sad Quotes to Explore

The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want....

You get people who come to London, sever links with where they come from, and then when they need people, there's nobody there. To feel like you can't...

Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad....

It sounds so nerdy and pathetic, but what I always do on Sunday afternoon is bring my inbox down to zero, which is so sad. But e-mail has become like ...

I get to play characters that kind of shock people and I enjoy doing that. I like characters that have meaning and get people in the heart. I want to ...

I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to write about? No ghosts, no fe...

The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them, 'Ok, be sad now.'...

I'm not going to do a song that's really sad and thoughtful. Although I've done ballads like 'Dear Darlin',' I want to make them dance and be happy....

If people are paying money to see me, then I want them to walk away from the show knowing they had a really great time. I want it to be very energetic...

I don't really do sad, depressing songs....