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Writing Quotes by Sherman Alexie
- When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.
- If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.
- Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very,…
- My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.
- I write books for teenagers because I vividly remember what it felt like to be a teen facing everyday and epic dangers. I don't write…
- I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.
- I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.
- Writing is a lonely business.
- I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and…
- The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that…
- I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited. If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese,…
- Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
- If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.
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