I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.
Isabel AllendeRead
January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them have been well received by the readers. I write eight to ten hours a day until I have a first draft, then I can relax a little. I am very disciplined. I write in silence and solitude. I light a candle to call inspiration and the muses, and I surround myself with pictures of the people I love, dead and alive.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the importance of discipline and environment in the creative process.
Isabel Allende emphasizes her writing routine, which begins on a day she considers lucky. She describes her commitment to writing for long hours in a focused and serene environment, suggesting that discipline, inspiration, and personal connections play key roles in her creative success.
In practice
This quote could inspire aspiring writers during a workshop on writing discipline.
I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.
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.
I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no idea, but I have learned to surrender to the muse. I become obsessed with a theme or with certain stories; they haunt me for years, and finally, I write them.
My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.
I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals.
I'm a writer. In Latin America, they say I'm a Latin-American writer because I also write in Spanish and my books are translated, but I am an American citizen and my books are published here, so I'm also an American writer.
Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.
The novel I am constantly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart book of myself.
I just want to go on making movies, and some of them will be completely meaningless, except, of course, to me.
Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.
Poetry is meant to inspire readers and listeners, to connect them more deeply to themselves even as it links them more fully to others. But many people feel put off by the terms of poetry, its odd vocabulary, its notorious difficulty.
Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful, That's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.
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