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.
land becoming feels
I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land.
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...
father order evil
In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself, Father Trais went on. Everything out in the world is also in you. Good, bad, evil, perfection, death, everything. So we study our souls.
sometimes monstrosity persons
Sometimes a person's monstrosity seems superhuman.
writing trying crude
It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.
rivers ice chaos
Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.
writing way i-can
By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.
parent way abandoned
There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there.