Our individual consciousnesses were sieves of the divine…

Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing?

— Louise Erdrich

“Emotions unreel in her like spools of cotton.”

— Louise Erdrich

“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

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

What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.

— Louise Erdrich

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

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

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

The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.

— Louise Erdrich

“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

But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.

— Louise Erdrich

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

— Louise Erdrich

I have to write. I have to be an artist.

— Louise Erdrich

“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

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