Other times I just sit in front of the computer and let a first sentence come out of the belly. For example, when I wrote a story about a slave revolt in Haiti 200 years ago, I had studied the event, but I had no characters, no story, no ending. I may have a time and a place that I have researched. They know that on January 8, I’m not available anymore. Having a start date is good for me and everybody around me. I need time and silence, or I will never be able to write. My life is busy, so I need to save some months of the year to be in a retreat. Why?Īllende: At the beginning it was superstition, because the first book had been so lucky. HBR: You start writing every book on the same date you began writing The House of the Spirits. Her catalog now spans more than 20 titles, including The Japanese Lover, released last year.
Although it became an international best seller, she would write one more successful book before feeling secure enough to quit her day job. Isabel Allende conceived her first novel, The House of the Spirits, as a letter to her dying grandfather.
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