Darkness Quote by Leslie Marmon Silko

To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

He made a story for all of them, a story to give them strength. The words of the story poured out of his mouth…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

The truth of course was otherwise, but Lecha had never felt she owed anyone the truth, unless it was truth about their own lives,…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

“He could get no rest as long as the memories were tangled with the present”

— Leslie Marmon Silko

The story was the important thing and little changes here and there were really part of the story. There were even stories about the…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

You don't have anything if you don't have the stories.

— Leslie Marmon Silko

Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time.

— Leslie Marmon Silko

I don't make outlines or plans because whenever I do, they turn out to be useless. It is as if I am compelled to…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

What is it about us human beings that we can’t let go of lost things?

— Leslie Marmon Silko

The only way to get change is not through the courts or — heaven forbid — the politicians, but through a change of human…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

Night. Heavenly delicious sweet night of the desert that calls all of us to love her. The night is our comfort with her coolness…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.

— Leslie Marmon Silko