When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for... →
Sasha Alexander
I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
People ask me if I have some kind of death wish, to keep saying the things I do. The answer is no: I would like to keep living. However, some things... →
Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and the west. But a radical... →
I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together.... →
Karen Allen
Every life of a character is within a context. If I write detached from a social and political background, my story looks like a soap opera where... →
Isabel Allende
I was a political refugee living in Venezuela. I had a job that was twelve hours a day, no money. It was a hard time.
I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile.
The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for... →
The longest, most solid and complex relationship in my life is with my mother. It started before I was born, and now, when I am 71 and living in... →