伊莎贝尔·阿连德是智利作家。阿连德的作品有时包含魔幻现实主义的某些方面，他以《幽灵之家》和《野兽之城》等小说而闻名，这些小说在商业上非常成功。阿连德被称为“世界上阅读最广泛的西班牙语作家”。
I have become an American citizen, and I love this country. I think that this country has incredible potential for goodness, an incredible possibility for doing the wrong thing, too.
我已经成为美国公民，我爱这个国家。我认为这个国家有着不可思议的善良潜力，也有着做错事的不可思议可能性。
I can't control life for my grandchildren, so how could I control a story? Sometimes I try to force something, and after working and working on that chapter, I realise that I am swimming against the current. I will never get there. So I have to let go of whatever previous idea I had about it and let the characters decide.
我不能为我的孙辈控制生活，那我怎么能控制一个故事呢？有时我试图强迫别人做些什么，在写了一章又一章之后，我意识到我在逆流而上。我永远也到不了那里。所以我必须放弃之前的想法，让角色来决定。
I never try to give a message in my books. It's about living with characters long enough to hear their voices and let them tell me the story. Sometimes I would love to have a happy ending, and it doesn't happen because the character or the story leads me in another direction.
我从不试图在我的书中传达信息。这是关于和角色一起生活足够长的时间来听到他们的声音，让他们告诉我这个故事。有时候我很想有一个幸福的结局，但它不会发生，因为这个角色或故事把我引向了另一个方向。
Twittering and blogging and all that is fine, but there is no idea of how to phrase something beautifully; how to use language to create an emotion. It's just passing information and sometimes very superficial information.
twitter和blog之类的都很好，但是却不知道如何用优美的语言表达；如何用语言创造情感。它只是传递信息，有时是非常肤浅的信息。
My desk is like a 'U,' so I have my computer and lots of dictionaries because I write in Spanish and I live in English.
我的书桌像个U，所以我有我的电脑和很多字典，因为我用西班牙语写作，我用英语生活。
I write a letter to my mother every day, because in that letter, I write down my day. And if I don't write it down, then tomorrow I will forget it and it's gone.
我每天给妈妈写一封信，因为在那封信里，我写下了我的一天。如果我不把它写下来，明天我就会忘记它，它就不见了。
In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: 'No, no, no. You have to write a book with your husband.' My husband is a writer of crime novels. His name is William Gordon. And so I had to accommodate to his style because that's what he writes. So we decided we'd give it a try. Well, we almost divorced.
2011年，我宣布要退休，我的经纪人惊慌失措。所以她说：“不，不，不。你必须和你丈夫一起写书。”我丈夫是犯罪小说作家。他叫威廉·戈登。所以我不得不适应他的风格，因为他就是这么写的。所以我们决定试试。我们差点离婚了。
Men's memoirs are about answers; women's memoirs are about questions. Most male authors want to look good in their memoirs and have a place in posterity, while most women know that posterity is what happens when you no longer care. Women want to connect with others here and now; they couldn't care less about legacy!
男人的回忆录是关于答案的；女人的回忆录是关于问题的。大多数男性作家都希望自己的回忆录好看，在子孙后代中占有一席之地，而大多数女性都知道，当你不再在意时，子孙后代会发生什么。女人想在此时此地与他人建立联系；他们不能不关心遗产！