Quotable: Isabel Allende

“Yeah, I am the least athletic person in the universe, but I compare writing to training for a sport. You have to do it every single day and nobody cares about your effort or how much time you spent or how much was wasted time. It doesn’t matter. It’s the end of the performance that is the only thing that really counts. And I think, in writing, it’s the same.” -Isabel Allende, in the interview with Madeline Miller at the back of A Long Petal of the Sea