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.
grows
Things which do not grow and change are dead things.
insulation
...don't read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience...
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.
legacy violence native
There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time.
plans greatest-wisdom knows
The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
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.
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.