I’m aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.

Allende frames her fiction as a response to what she perceives as the world’s irreducible mystery. Rather than treating reality as purely rational or explainable, she lists the phenomena—coincidence, premonition, dreams, intense feeling, nature’s force, “magic”—that her narratives repeatedly explore and legitimize. The statement also works as an implicit defense of the marvelous in literature: these elements are not escapist decorations but ways of telling emotional and cultural truths that ordinary realism can miss. In effect, she describes an artistic method in which the inner life and the uncanny are treated as meaningful evidence about human experience.