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.
long together stories
But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.
memories imagination sometimes
But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.
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.
stories ifs
You don't have anything if you don't have the stories.
letting-go hands giving
He made a story for all of them, a story to give them strength. The words of the story poured out of his mouth as if they had substance, pebbles and stone extending to hold the corporal up...knees from buckling...hands from letting go of the blanket.
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.
memories writing order
I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world.
class years graduates
Fortunately, her year of graduate classes prepared her for obnoxious conduct.
long alive long-time
Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time.
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.