It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Life is made up of three kinds of people -- those who live it, those afraid to, those in between. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
There are people who are always, I think, going to remain people of the book, to use another author's title, but people… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
On any state elections map, the reservations are blue places. Native people are most often progressives, Democrats, and by no means gun-toting… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after time, never… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I want to remember what bullshit looks like when weapons of mass destruction are diagrammed out and whacko "intelligence" is delivered in… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
It's very hard to track down what's real and what's not real. We haven't absorbed what climate change is doing. Because whether… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
You see I thought love got easier over the years so it didn't hurt so bad when it hurt, or feel so… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I grew up in North Dakota around Dakota and Ojibwe people, and also small-town people in Wahpeton. Writers make few choices, really,… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
As soon as there's a crisis, there are people who take charge and want to control others. Climate-change catastrophe and human migration… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Add there was that moment when my mother and father walked in the door disguised as old people. I thought the miles… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Cold sinks in, there to stay. And people, they'll leave you, sure. There's no return to what was and no way back.… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job,… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“For much of my life I was not acquainted with what may seem the obscure derivation of the adjective 'sincere.' It is… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“Other freshmen were already moving into their dormitory rooms when we arrived, with their parents helping haul. I saw boxes of paperbacks, stereo equipment,… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share
My father is my biggest literary influence. Recently, I've been looking through his letters. He was in the National Guard when I was a… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share
Looking at the shape of the world, I see how we're in a time where women are the subject of hatred, fear, and we… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share
She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share
Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share
The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share
“Delphine began to read with a mad attention when she wanted to talk to Clarisse. She saw that in her life there was a… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share
“The Creator made us for each other. Me here. Zelia there. Space was put between us by human error. But our hearts listened to… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share
So many things in the world have happened before. But it's like they never did. Every new thing that happens to a person, it's… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share
