“Can a writer forget something that he’s written in one of his own books? Yes, of course.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I guess a witness is all I am. I think as a writer, you're pretty removed. Writing is a very selfish, individualistic… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“I keep writing and rewriting, drawing and redrawing, and rethinking and revising and reediting. It became my grieving ceremony.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted,… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life; it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“I'm a features writer, and an Indian at that, so I get all the shit jobs. Not the dangerous shit jobs or… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“yet, I have spent my literary career writing loving odes to my drunken and unreliable father. I have, in a spectacular show… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Non-Indian writers usually say "Great Spirit," "Mother Earth," "Two-Legged, Four-Legged, and Winged." Mixed-blood writers usually say "Creator, "Mother Earth," "Two-Legged, Four- Legged,… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“We writers are the worst kind of cruel, Because we worship our own stories and poems, And what human can compete with… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited. If you speak and write in English, or… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I write less about alcohol, less and less and less. You 're an addict - so of course you write about the… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“As a child, I read because books–violent and not, blasphemous and not, terrifying and not–were the most loving and trustworthy things in… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I thought I’d been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing Y.A. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“I don’t recall the moment when I officially became a storyteller—a talented liar—but here I must quote Simon Ortiz, the Acoma Pueblo… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
If I were a doctor nobody would be inviting me to talk to reservations. I'd be a different person. Writers can influence… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I write books for teenagers because I vividly remember what it felt like to be a teen facing everyday and epic dangers.… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort.… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I refuse to censor myself and kids will find their own way to my books and to all of the books that… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg [printing] press. I think TV… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“He says the earth is an oval marble that nobody can win. He says the sky is not blue and the grass is not… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Now, in the old days, Indians used to be forgiving of any kind of eccentricity. In fact, weird people were often celebrated. Epileptics were… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Since Jesus was human then he most assuredly farted and burped. And if God did create us in God's image then God must fart… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“A century ago she might have been beautiful, her face reflected in the river instead of a mirror. But all the years have changed… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Is there really a difference between that killing and this killing? Does God approve of some killing and not other killing? If I kill… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
My parents banned nothing, though the Christian fundamentalists in my tribe held book-and-record burnings every now and again. So, yes, fundamentalist assholes can also… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Or maybe I could have anesthetized myself with homework and extra credit and binge-reading.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Dear wife, I'm sorry that I am mysteriously incapable of folding clean laundry, but I iron, oh, I iron. Sweetheart, I'll make your white… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
![“They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg [printing] press. I think TV is the only thing that keeps us vaguely in democracy even if it's in the hands of the corporate culture. If you're an artist you write in your time. Moaning about the fact…” quote by Sherman Alexie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/715/sherman-alexie-444_artist_they-ve-been-screaming-about-the-death-o_2593462.jpg)
