You really need to approach each book as if you have been a failure. . . . If you start to believe… — 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
Nothing I write ever has a moral. If it seems to a reader that there is one, that is unintentional. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
...don't read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience... — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I've always switched points of view in… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
What I see in the book is an exquisite form of technology: one that doesn't require a power source and can be… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Talking about how I might write the next book is like talking about whether or not to have sex. Any dithering ruins… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
[On her and husband Michael Dorris:] We both have title collections. I think a title is like a magnet. It begins to… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“For it was through books that she felt her life to be unjudged Look at all of the great mix-ups, messes, confinement,… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I can't imagine a home without an overflow of books. The point of books is to have way too many but to… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“We have a lot of books in our house. They are our primary decorative motif-books in piles and on the coffee table,… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“Something in her was changing as she read the books. Life after life flashed before her eyes, yet she stayed safe from… — 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
Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing? — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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