Louise Erdrich Quotes

You really need to approach each book as if you have been a failure. . . . If you start to believe your flap-copy, you're finished as a writer.

Louise Erdrich

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• In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • America
  • Failure

• Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

  

  Kanye West
  • Believe
  • You
  • Would

• In my downtime, you'll mostly find me curled up with a book. I love reading biographies. My favourites are those of Dalai Lama, Osama Bin Laden, and Einstein.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Book
  • Find
  • Biographies

• I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• I believe that Clinton is the most wicked and vile President that this nation has ever had.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Nation

• Most people believe that the Creator of the universe wrote (or dictated) one of their books. Unfortunately, there are many books that pretend to divine authorship, and each makes incompatible claims about how we all must live.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Believe
  • Live

• Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Journey

• I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • Writer
  • Just
  • Reader

• The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Mind
  • Book
  • Doing

• I know it can be difficult for parents, but I really do believe that kids need to play the predominant role in the choices that go into their own space.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Believe
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I believe the question now is: who murdered my mother?

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • Believe
  • Mother
  • Question

• I do believe in happy-ever-after.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Believe
  • Happy

• I don't believe in 'thinking' old. Although I've transitioned through many bodies - a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult - my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Survival

• As a leader of a majority-Muslim nation, I believe Islamic countries must better understand what young people aspire to.

  

  Najib Razak
  • People
  • Believe
  • Leader

• The fact is that you're never gonna believe any of the reviews, because the movie is to you what it is to you. No one's ever gonna sway you from what you feel about it.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Believe
  • Movie
  • You

• I believe that shows should be shot where they take place.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Believe
  • Place
  • I Believe

• I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Believe
  • Color
  • Human

• I can't believe that I get to stand on the stages I stand on every summer, and get to sing the songs that I sing.

  

  Kenny Chesney
  • Believe
  • Summer

• Radical Islam, it has grown into a global jihad.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Islam
  • Radical
  • Global

• “He was the type of man women said they hated, they absolutely hated, they absolutely and categorically hated, and then they went to bed with him. I was the type of man women said they hated, and then they went home.”

  

  Colin Bateman
  • Women
  • Man
  • Hated

• Even if change in a voice is light, and people maybe don't notice it, that slight change is, for singers, a bit of an earthquake.

  

  Juan Diego Florez
  • Change
  • Voice
  • Singers

• You really need to approach each book as if you have been a failure. . . . If you start to believe your flap-copy, you're finished as a writer.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Believe
  • Book
  • Failure