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
words
It was enough just to sit there without words.
cuisine evolving people talking whatever whose
You're talking about evolving a cuisine from a people whose cuisine has been whatever we could get for a long time.
grows
Things which do not grow and change are dead things.
strength love-you heart
You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.
discipline return causes
If only I had discipline, but alas, it is only an obsessive-compulsive trait and the beauty of habit that causes me to return again and again to my work.
romantic sky common-sense
some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.
insulation
...don't read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience...
sometimes monstrosity persons
Sometimes a person's monstrosity seems superhuman.
rivers ice chaos
Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.
parent way abandoned
There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there.
stories shapes young
When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.
weed rocks fishing
...Grandpa's mind had left us, gone wild and wary. When I walked with him I could feel how strange it was. His thoughts swam between us, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling my own words like baits and lures.
perfection splendor tasks
To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.
legacy violence native
There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time.