Sherman Alexie Quotes
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Okay, so maybe I'm romantic... but somebody is supposed to be romantic. Some warrior is supposed to go to war against the imperial forces of cynicism and irony. I am a sentimental soldier.
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We can all learn from every text. Reading the work that disgusts you can only strengthen your core beliefs. I could teach a semester-long course based only on reading the local telephone book. All stories can be taught in valuable ways.
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If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.
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I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children
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Is revenge a circle inside of a circle inside of a circle?
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He looked into the crowd for approval, saw his mother and father. He waved and they waved back. Smiles and Indian teeth. They were both drunk. Everything familiar and welcome. Everything beautiful.
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Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.
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We all have to find our own ways to say good-bye.
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The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.
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I write books for teenagers because I vividly remember what it felt like to be a teen facing everyday and epic dangers. I don't write to protect them. It's far too late for that. I write to give them weapons-in the form of words and ideas-that will help them fight their monsters. I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.
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I love to scare the already terrified assholes.
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I ain't interested in the truth. I'm interested in the way things should be.
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I'm quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird
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If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.
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In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'
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Humor was an antiseptic that cleaned the deepest of personal wounds.
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If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.
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She was in pain and I loved her, sort of loved her, I guess, so I kind of had to love her pain, too.
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When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.
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When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing. And so, laughing and crying, we said good-bye to my grandmother. And when we said goodbye to one grandmother, we said good-bye to all of them. Each funeral was a funeral for all of us. We lived and died together. All of us laughed when they lowered my grandmother into the ground. And all of us laughed when they covered her with dirt. And all of us laughed as we walked and drove and rode our way back to our lonely, lonely houses.
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All art is exploitation.
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How self-centered, how arrogant... Imagine the awesome privilege of living in a society where you get to choose what you eat at each and every meal. When I was a kid, I was a vegetarian and a vegan for long stretches... I was a commodity cheese-atarian.
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I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort. When I'm writing a novel it's pretty much all I can do. I get bored. It takes months. Movies do the same thing. It's all-encompassing. It feels like I'm going to end up writing poems, short stories and screenplays.
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If it's fiction, then it better be true.