“You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.”

— Isabel Allende · Life quote

You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not. — Isabel Allende quote card
Novelist · born 1942

Chilean-American novelist whose debut The House of the Spirits (1982) became a landmark of magical realism. One of the most widely read Spanish-language authors in the world, she writes sweeping family sagas of love, exile and memory.

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