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“ I continued writing for several hours every night and on the weekends.”
“_________________________________________ Excerpted from Story Telling: A Writing Life by Isabel Allende.”
“Since that first experience in the kitchen in Caracas, much more has happened in my life, and I have written many books.”
“Chile is never mentioned in the novel, but it is the main character.”
“Never again have I had that incredible feeling of absolute freedom to write.”
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“It would become my first book, The House of the Spirits .”
“ If I had given myself the task of writing a novel, probably I never would have gone beyond the first few sentences, but as it was just a letter, like so many letters I had written to my mother and other people, I wrote without any expectations.”
“Article continues after advertisement On January 8, 1981, I started writing a letter to my grandfather, who was dying in Chile.”
“As I recalled events from the past, the story took shape and the characters appeared one by one, almost all of them inspired by my extravagant relatives and people I had known.”
“They would not be forgotten when he was gone.”
“By the end of the year, I had over five hundred pages on the kitchen counter.”