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
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.
effort solitude kind
I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can't picture.
notebook ideas compost
I have always kept notebooks and I go back to them over and over. They are my compost pile of ideas.
life people three
Life is made up of three kinds of people -- those who live it, those afraid to, those in between.
life life-is short-words
Each life is one short word slowly uttered.
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.
faith might belief
I thought how we might have to yell to be heard by Higher Power, but that's not saying it's not there. And that is faith for you. It's belief even when the gods don't deliver.
kids sunday fighting
I was the sort of kid who spent a Sunday afternoon prying little trees out of the foundation of his parents' house. I should have given in to the inevitable truth that this was the sort of person I would become, in the end, but I kept fighting it.
revenge dwelling trying
I spend my time dwelling on revenge and try to deal with the monsters crawling out of the ashes.
understanding brain wire
You never know where you're going to find the same thoughts in another brain, but when it happens you know it right off, just like you were connected by a small electrical wire that suddenly glows red hot and sparks.
suicide lines ifs
If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.