Sherman Alexie Quotes
I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.
Quotes to Explore
-
I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
-
If your aim is to attack the United States, it is hard to imagine a more difficult way of getting here than by posing as a refugee.
-
I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
-
I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'
-
I don't want to be on the Internet.
-
When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
-
Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
-
You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
-
Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
-
When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.
-
Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
-
Biochemistry is the science of life. All our life processes - walking, talking, moving, feeding - are essentially chemical reactions. So biochemistry is actually the chemistry of life, and it's supremely interesting.
-
With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.
-
I do read all my work aloud as I'm working - this has made it a little hard to adjust to my husband's retirement. I can shout the shouty parts if I'm alone in the house, but of course, I feel a fool if someone is there to hear me.
-
You don't only have the need to do it well because leading a country is something quite important, but also because I am the first woman I have the obligation to do it the best possible way so my country can continue voting for women in the future. It is a big responsibility.
-
Poetry helps me understand who I am. It helps me understand the world around me. But above all, what poetry has taught me is the fact that I need to embrace mystery in order to be completely human.
-
Sometimes I wake up and think I look horrible. And sometimes I see a strong woman.
-
Young girls in particular aren't given a space to be messy and complicated and express themselves and experiment - they're told to be a little quieter and a little less than.
-
Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.
-
In the culture of pluralism...the only thing that cannot be tolerated is a claim to exclusivity.
-
England is my home. London is my home. New York feels like, if I have to spend a year living in an unfamiliar city, this is a pretty lovely one to spend a year in, but I will be going home at the end of it, certainly.
-
It's so important for us to be able to talk about body positivity and accepting yourself and loving yourself because we've all been in a place where we're insecure.
-
The Sphinx, the Pyramids, the stone temples are, all of them, ultimately, as flimsy as London Bridge; our cities but tents set up in the cosmos. We pass. But what the bee knows, the wisdom that sustains our passing life - however much we deny or ignore it - that for ever remains.
-
I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.
