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
I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
The Internet, which seems now so embedded and personal and crucial to our lives, isn't at all - we really shouldn't think… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
We have a huge struggle for our sense of what a democracy is. We're not living in reality when we think we… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I am part of what she thinks is her illness, a symptom of which she thinks she has been cured. She, on… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I think she is confused by the way I want her, which is like nobody else. I know this deep down. I… — 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
Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me. Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not? — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons to be here on earth is to finally be who we are, at all times -… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Money helps, though not so much as you think when you don't have it. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Now I'm sixty-one... sixty-two, pretty soon. It's a really interesting age. Now we have women of your age, and coming up, and… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I have brothers and was a tomboy, if that's still a designation. It wasn't a stretch for me to think and write… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I truly think that you can't go and stalk your material, you have to leave the door open and whatever chooses you,… — 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