Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich is an Ojibwe writer of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings. She is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, a band of the Anishinaabe...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth7 June 1954
CountryUnited States of America
plans greatest-wisdom knows
The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
sides coins shade
Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.
lasts old-love kind
Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.
transformation universe
The universe is transformation.
evil moral poor
We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material, results in good. You'll see.
resilience towns small-town
When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished.
ravens light bird
Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were composed of the black light of their limber intelligence. If only we did not have to die at all. Instead, become ravens.
jealousy horse mind
my mind ran over scenes of Shesheeb seducing Margaret until I was a wagon dragged by the runaway horses of my jealousy.
want-something church hens
I don't pray. When I was young, I vowed I never would be caught begging God. If I want something I get it for myself. I go to church only to show the old hens they don't get me down.
lovely harm
Be lovely and do no harm.
rivers want different
i want to hear what's happened to you," she said evenly after a while. she gestured in the direction, down river, of the butcher shop. "it's just that there is nowhere else to start," she said gently. "niether of us is the same. but i'm different because of small, good, manageable things. you're different because ... things i don't know.
our-actions action undoing
All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing.
saved
...whom he had saved from a life of excessive freedom
here-i-am irritated feels
Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, the place to love and be irritated with.