Writing is a calling, not a choice.
– Isabel Allende
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- I’d realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story. – Isabel Allende
- The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night. – Isabel Allende
- Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy…. – Isabel Allende
- I would like to have been born a man, so I could leave too. – Isabel Allende
- I can promise you that women working together -“ linked, informed and educated -“ can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet. – Isabel Allende
- write with honesty and don’t worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they’ll hate you anyway. – Isabel Allende
- I go, but I always remember you. – Isabel Allende
- We only have what we give. – Isabel Allende
- Nothing changes; we humans repeat the same sins over and over, eternally. – Isabel Allende
- He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul. – Isabel Allende
- Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. – Isabel Allende
- To make or not to make a choice is still considered you made a choice as it was choice to choose or not to choose to make a choice. – Auliq Ice
- As a Priest got a calling to preach, you also got a calling to do whatever you do, so do it with passion and only God can stop your calling. – Unarine Ramaru
- Writing is not a choice for me, it is a calling. – Brenda B Taylor
- Writing isn’t a choice. It’s a calling. So answer the damn phone already! – TN Suarez
- Writing is not a hobby. Collecting stamps or coins is a hobby. Writing is a calling. – Barbara Abercrombie
- It’s my choice to be beautiful. It’s my choice to be ugly. And it’s my choice to decided what those words actually mean. – Virginia Petrucci
- The art of writing involves making as many cups of tea as you can in the time available for writing. Then adding extra time for writing… – Alan Dapre
- You’re never as good a writer as you think you are, and you’re never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing, writing. – Don Roff
- Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing… the rest will follow. – Jane Yolen
- The experience taught him [Salvador Allende] too late that a system cannot be changed from the government but from the power. – Gabriel Garca Mrquez
- There may be blasphemy and opposition to your calling, but you must continue fulfilling your calling – Sunday Adelaja
- I don’t mind my friends calling me ‘Thornes,’ but the fact of people calling me ‘Prickly Thornes’ draws the line. – Simi Sunny
- I am unique.I have mission.I have a calling.I will fulfill my highest potential and calling. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Your highest purpose and calling is often really calling for your own healing – Bryant McGill
- To say she was attractive would be an understatement. Calling her ‘attractive’ would be like calling the Taj Mahal a marble grave. – Mallika Nawal
- Because through the heavy water, I heard the sound of an angel calling my name, calling me to the only heaven I wanted. – Stephenie Meyer
- Lines don’t make beautiful women less beautiful – Isabel Wolff
- So you’re a reader,- My mom sighs, as if somehow this elevates Isabel to yet another realm of perfection. – Denis Markell
- We feel like acting like a Christian, following the steps of Christ, is much more important than following a doctrine. – Isabel Ruiz Lucero
- We want to bring light into media, we always keep that into mind… the message of love and goodness that still exists in the world… – Isabel Ruiz Lucero
- That’s the positive aspect of trade I suppose. The world gets stirred up together. That’s about as much as I have to say for it. – Isabel Hoving
- Why, isabel? Why are you doing this to yourself? To your – Louise ONeill
- Living a lie is painful, and doesn’t do anyone any good. I had to be true to myself, because, either way, God would know if I was lying. – Isabel Quintero
- Oh, but it’s our tears that make us human, Isabel. – Susan Meissner
- Isabel had gone silent in a way that shouted the silence to me. – Maggie Stiefvater
- The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly. – Isabel Paterson
- Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status. – Isabel Paterson
- Dedication and enthusiams are the greatest rewards for learning – Isabel Ramos
- But I did not want to be good. I wanted to be a writer. – Isabel Huggan