Louise Erdrich Quotes

By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.

Louise Erdrich

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• Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Man

• I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.

  

  Randee Heller
  • Business
  • You
  • Know

• The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Wisdom

• Writers should provoke disagreement.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Should
  • Disagreement

• Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • People
  • Experience
  • Success

• I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Song
  • Inspiration

• The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Ideas
  • Bed
  • Communism

• At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Team
  • Employees
  • Teammates

• When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Things
  • Changes
  • Impact

• My schedule is so crazy.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Crazy
  • Schedule

• You can't say somebody is a bust if they're making plays and running to the ball.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • You
  • Running
  • Say

• A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Great
  • Day
  • Burden

• I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Mind
  • City
  • Crazy

• My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Kind
  • Never
  • Min­i­mal­ism

• I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Heart
  • Wife
  • Anger

• I don't see why OPEC countries should continue to cut production just to keep the price of oil high. This will not affect the industrial countries alone, it will also hit poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Who will look after them?

  

  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
  • Why
  • America
  • High

• Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Writing
  • Like
  • Road

• It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Want
  • Fear
  • See

• If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Work
  • History
  • Black

• I could never live a nonproductive life and I feel that I have lived a productive life as far as I want to in terms of this company that I have for so many years.

  

  Katherine Dunham
  • Life
  • Live

• Yes, I am very unhappy, extremely anguished at human rights violations against Kashmiris in India or against Rohingyas in Burma or, for that matter, Christians in Orissa; but obviously, I am going to be more concerned of violations taking place in my own house because I am closer to the people who I live with. I have more passion for them.

  

  Asma Jahangir
  • People
  • Live
  • House

• This particular one was very, very heartwarming and is the relationship of an older man and a young boy that are essentially on the run. And so yeah, as I say, Barry Crump wrote a lot of books and this one got into the hands of Taika Watiti who then writing the screenplay decided to really vamp up if that's the word, or ramp up and modernize certain phrases - getting in the humor. So he added a lot of a real comedy perspective onto it which is what I think the story needed anyway, especially for it to turn into a film. And it worked.

  

  Rhys Darby
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Book

• By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Writing
  • Live
  • Survive