Louise Erdrich Quotes

Nothing I force myself to write about ever turns out well, and so I've learned to wait for the voice, the incident, the image that reverberates.

Louise Erdrich

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• I really hate to write.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Hate
  • Write
  • Really

• Love is more than one thing.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Love
  • More
  • Love Is

• I just want to do the best things I can do on the field, do the things I know how to in baseball, have fun.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Fun
  • Best
  • Baseball

• I've been very excited to have children for a long time. It definitely added an interesting twist to the night we screened 'Lyle' at Outfest, and I got up to do the Q&A, and I had this huge belly no one was expecting. It creeped everybody out in the best way.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Life
  • World
  • Reality

• The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.

  

  Samuel George Morton
  • Long
  • American
  • Black

• I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at school because I had a weird name, and my parents had these accents, and I was definitely a late bloomer.

  

  Nasim Pedrad
  • Trying
  • School
  • Age

• 'It Girl' is supposed to be something that only lasts a certain amount of time. They keep calling me an 'It Girl,' and at this point it makes me laugh, because I've done that so many times: 'You're it;' 'You're not it.' What is 'it?'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Laugh

• The best way for me to procrastinate as a writer is research.

  

  Quiara Alegria Hudes
  • Me
  • Best
  • Research

• I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Look
  • Princess
  • Feminine

• Costa Rica, with its tourist-based economy and lack of a national army, has focused on keeping safe its beaches, parks and other public draws. It is one if the safest countries in Central America based on the number of homicides.

  

  Laura Chinchilla
  • America
  • Army
  • Economy

• I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Louis, either.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • Nature
  • See
  • Back

• I don't think I have the assets to play the more traditional Bond Girl.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Think
  • Girl
  • Bond

• If I could change anything, I would definitely have had a father around. My father. I would definitely say it affected me deeply as a young man, coming up. Who doesn't want a father? Those are the beginnings, and those are what can dictate the roads you choose in life, and choosing them well.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Life
  • Up
  • Father

• We don't need a lot of initiatives for women in film; what we need is money.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Women
  • Money
  • Need

• Even when EPA subjects its science to peer review, the agency often stacks the deck of supposedly independent advisory panels by including members who are EPA grant recipients.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • Science
  • Independent
  • Review

• I'm into heavy duty, psychedelic, foreign music. That's what I like listening to.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Music
  • Like
  • Listening

• Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Life Is A

• I'm most comfortable when I'm in the studio and music playing.

  

  Future
  • Music

• I haven't been in Washington long, but I have learned that it is a place filled with people who say one thing to get elected and do the opposite once they get there.

  

  Jeff Duncan
  • People
  • Long

• As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

  

  Kenneth Koch
  • Good
  • Political
  • Poetry

• I've always been really anti-social, and being relatively famous has just given me an excuse to go out even less. If I didn't play in Soundgarden I'd have no excuse for being the way I am. My friends and family would hate me, whereas now they probably feel sorry for me. Y'know, 'Poor kid, he can't come out because he gets hassled a lot.'

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Hate

• There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Parents
  • Marriage
  • Struggle

• Nothing I force myself to write about ever turns out well, and so I've learned to wait for the voice, the incident, the image that reverberates.

  

  Louise Erdrich