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You really need to approach each book as if you have been a failure. . . . If you start to believe your flap-copy, you're finished as a writer.
Louise Erdrich
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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
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More quotes by Louise Erdrich
Add there was that moment when my mother and father walked in the door disguised as old people. I thought the miles in the car had bent them, dulled their eyes, even grayed and whitened their hair and caused their hands and voices to tremble. At the same time, I found, as I rose form the chair, I'd gotten old along with them.
Louise Erdrich
We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.
Louise Erdrich
Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.
Louise Erdrich
Cold sinks in, there to stay. And people, they'll leave you, sure. There's no return to what was and no way back. There's just emptiness all around, and you in it, like singing up from the bottom of a well, like nothing else, until you harm yourself, until you are a mad dog biting yourself for sympathy. Because there is no relenting.
Louise Erdrich
People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.
Louise Erdrich
Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.
Louise Erdrich
Freedom, I found is not only in the running but in the heart, the mind, the hands.
Louise Erdrich
To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life.
Louise Erdrich
We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.
Louise Erdrich
I have brothers and was a tomboy, if that's still a designation. It wasn't a stretch for me to think and write as a 13-year-old boy - it is freeing.
Louise Erdrich
He despised his body for its boring hungers, reflex anger its petty, obliterating rage. But now he'd become detached. He regarded his body with a tender regret. It was the thing his spirit had to haul.
Louise Erdrich
Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were composed of the black light of their limber intelligence. If only we did not have to die at all. Instead, become ravens.
Louise Erdrich
History works itself out in the living.
Louise Erdrich
There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time.
Louise Erdrich
Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.
Louise Erdrich
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.
Louise Erdrich
Society is like this card game here, cousin. We got dealt our hand before we were even born, and as we grow we have to play as best as we can.
Louise Erdrich
It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.
Louise Erdrich
Be lovely and do no harm.
Louise Erdrich
To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.
Louise Erdrich
