Louise Erdrich Quotes
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When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished.
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Love. The black hook. The spear singing through the mind.
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The world tips away when we look into our children's faces.
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I have to write. I have to be an artist.
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I work really out of mythology, so often I work out of a story that has remained lodged inside somehow, or I work out of history, you know, out of a sense of historical inevitability with characters.
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Freedom, I found is not only in the running but in the heart, the mind, the hands.
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Sometimes a person's monstrosity seems superhuman.
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Each life is one short word slowly uttered.
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Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.
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I spend most of my time writing.
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It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.
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Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
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My parents' marriage is a gift to everyone around them - 60 years of making their kids laugh. How many parents are actually funny?
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Coming down off the trail, I am lost in my own thoughts and unprepared when a bear chugs across the path just before it gives out on the gravel road. I am so distracted that I keep walking towards the bear. I only stop when it rears, stands on hind legs, and stares at me, sensitive nose pressed into the air, weak eyes searching. I have never been this close to a wild bear before, but I am not frightened. There is no menace in its stance; it is not even curious. The bear seems to know who or what I am. The bear is not impressed.
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There are several kinds of land on reservations. And all of these pieces of land have different entities who are in charge of enforcing laws on this land.
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I grew up in North Dakota around Dakota and Ojibwe people, and also small-town people in Wahpeton. Writers make few choices, really, about their material. We have to write about what comes naturally and what interests us - so I do.
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I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I've always switched points of view in my books. I'm a Gemini.
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I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions.
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The universe is transformation.
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The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.
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I want to remember what bullshit looks like when weapons of mass destruction are diagrammed out and whacko "intelligence" is delivered in an ominous way to strike fear into people and especially to pull on the idealism and zeal of the young.
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You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.
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I am at the bookstore a lot, but let my friends, the professional Birchbark Books staff, handle the day in and day out.
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All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing.