Leslie Marmon Silko
Leslie Marmon Silko
Leslie Marmon Silkois a Laguna Pueblo writer and one of the key figures in the First Wave of what literary critic Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth5 March 1948
CountryUnited States of America
fighting stories illness-and-death
I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.
dust people care
relationships. That's all there really is. There's your relationship with the dust that just blew in your face, or with the person who just kicked you end over end. ... You have to come to terms, to some kind of equilibrium, with those people around you, those people who care for you, your environment.
gone remember forget-you
When someone dies, you don't get over it by forgetting; you get over it by remembering, and you are aware that no person is ever truly lost or gone once they have been in our life and loved us, as we have loved them.
writing long world
Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.
grows
Things which don't shift and grow are dead things.
writing doe useless
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 violate the scope of any outline or plan; it is as if the writing does not want me to know what is about to happen.
important stories littles
The story was the important thing and little changes here and there were really part of the story. There were even stories about the different versions of stories and how they imagined the differing versions came to be.
snow sorrow wool
the snow ... came in thick tufts like new wool - washed before the weaver spins it.
dawn hills sand
Moonflowers blossom in the sand hills before dawn, just as I followed him.