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
To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics. — 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
Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place… — 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
Nothing I force myself to write about ever turns out well, and so I've learned to wait for the voice, the incident,… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked… — 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
You really need to approach each book as if you have been a failure. . . . If you start to believe… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity. — 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
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
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
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
