Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie
Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr., born October 7, 1966) is an American poet, writer, and filmmaker. Much of his writing draws on his experiences as a Native American with ancestry from several tribes. He grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation and now lives in Seattle, Washington...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 October 1966
CityWelpinet, WA
CountryUnited States of America
culture storytelling grew
I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.
inspire moments
What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.
names insomniac
My name is Sherman J. Alexie Jr., and I am an insomniac.
lonely writing
Writing is a lonely business.
drinking feelings world
Drinking would shut down my seeing and my hearing and my feeling," she used to say. "Why would I want to be in the world if I couldn't touch the world with all of my senses intact?
bye way good-bye
We all have to find our own ways to say good-bye.
wall broken promise
But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.
adventurous-life borders individual
I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.
night assumption cop
In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions.
night maps realizing
At the halfway point of any drunken night, there is a moment when an Indian realizes he cannot turn back toward tradition and that he has no map to guide him toward the future.
cold cry numb
I learned how to stop crying. I learned how to hide inside of myself. I learned how to be somebody else. I learned how to be cold and numb.
kings book reading
Bush has not read enough books to have a developed moral sense. The fewer books you read, the easier it is to become fundamental. In some ways my antiwar stand here is also a stand on anti-literacy. Someone should get G.W. into a reading program, get him to join a book club. Have him read Hamlet, King Lear.
sometimes pretending passing
Sometimes it's called passing out and sometimes it's just pretending to be asleep
beer glasses people
When a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's half filled or half empty. They just hope it's good beer.