Louise Erdrich Quotes

It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to. And even once I realized that they were being read, I still wrote as if I were writing in secret. That's how one has to write anyway--in secret.

Louise Erdrich

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• North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Men
  • Country
  • Man

• A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Spiritual partners use their delightful experiences together as well as their power struggles to learn about themselves and change themselves.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Power
  • Together
  • Change

• I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Never
  • Circumstances
  • Blamed

• He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Long
  • Power
  • Courage

• I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Problem
  • Violence

• I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Imagination
  • Living
  • Yes

• One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Family
  • Relationship
  • Early

• I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Work
  • Real
  • Family

• It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• Hot girls have so many options. Sitting at home alone any night of the week and searching the Internet for a dude is on zero hot girls' agendas. So they're definitely not coming after you.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Home
  • Night
  • Alone

• Many people who I respected were disappointed when I started 'Wine Library TV.' They thought I was dumbing down wine, but I always knew I was one of the biggest producers of new wine drinkers in the world, and people are realizing it now.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • World
  • Thought

• Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.

  

  Faith Hunter
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Archery requires very sensitive muscles.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Very
  • Sensitive
  • Muscles

• In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • People
  • Job
  • America

• To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Work
  • Job
  • Science

• Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Why
  • She
  • Bad

• I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Life
  • Morning
  • Rest

• There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Hope
  • Beauty
  • Look

• Kids tend to look up to sports figures and entertainers, probably more than they should, but I've tried to use that in a positive way.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Sports

• Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Simple

• A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.

  

  John Lothrop Motley
  • Animal

• Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story.

  

  Mary Stuart Masterson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Writing

• It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to. And even once I realized that they were being read, I still wrote as if I were writing in secret. That's how one has to write anyway--in secret.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Writing
  • Write
  • Secret