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A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.

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Sherman Alexie
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
Film Director
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Washington
Sherman Joseph Alexie
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Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.
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Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don't wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is.
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Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.
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I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. That's right, I am a book kisser. Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent.
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My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.
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When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.
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I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.
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The ordinary can be like medicine.
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If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.
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You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.
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I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.
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If a parent doesn't want his/her child to read a book then there is always an alternative text to read. But the book banners want to control what every child reads.
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If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.
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Nobody recognizes that a bookstore or library can also be a drowning polar bear. And in this country [US], magazines, newspapers, and bookstores are drowning polar bears. And if people can't see that or don't want to talk about it, I don't understand them at all.
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Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
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The poetry, if you will, of life is reduced to this sort of dry, scientific, you know, it's the worst sort of précis of who we are.
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In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can lie and sort of justify your delusion about your epicness. But when you're writing a memoir, you're trying to make your life epic and it's not - nobody's life is.
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I write books for teenagers because I vividly remember what it felt like to be a teen facing everyday and epic dangers. I don't write to protect them. It's far too late for that. I write to give them weapons-in the form of words and ideas-that will help them fight their monsters. I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.
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