Quote

I am at the bookstore a lot, but let my friends, the professional Birchbark Books staff, handle the day in and day out.

Louise Erdrich

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Books
Friends
Book
Bookstore
Bookstores
Staff
Professional
Handle

More quotes by Louise Erdrich

Image
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
Image
Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.
Louise Erdrich
Image
Sometimes a person's monstrosity seems superhuman.
Louise Erdrich
Image
Now that I knew fear, I also knew it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would pass.
Louise Erdrich
Image
When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished.
Louise Erdrich
Image
I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land.
Louise Erdrich
Image
I work really out of mythology, so often I work out of a story that has remained lodged inside somehow, or I work out of history, you know, out of a sense of historical inevitability with characters.
Louise Erdrich
Image
To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.
Louise Erdrich
Image
The story comes around, pushing at our brains, and soon we are trying to ravel back to the beginning, trying to put families into order and make sense of things. But we start with one person, and soon another and another follows, and still another, until we are lost in the connections.
Louise Erdrich
Image
If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.
Louise Erdrich
Image
Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after - lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won't ever come by such a bargain again.
Louise Erdrich
Image
People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.
Louise Erdrich
Image
Her mind was present because she was always gone. Her hands were filled because they grasped the meaning of empty. Life was simple. Her husband returned and she served him with indifferent patience this time. When he asked what had happened to her heat for him, she gestured to the west. The sun was setting. The sky was a body of fire.
Louise Erdrich
Image
Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.
Louise Erdrich
Image
A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.
Louise Erdrich
Image
I make very involved drawings, even little structures, and try using design to figure out the rhythm of a plot. If there are several narrators then a clue has to pop up in the first line. There have to be certain grammatical clues, or distinctive names.
Louise Erdrich
Image
There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time.
Louise Erdrich
Image
I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed by the science world.
Louise Erdrich
Image
History works itself out in the living.
Louise Erdrich
Image
Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.
Louise Erdrich