Latest Louise Erdrich Quotes from Interviews

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• As soon as there's a crisis, there are people who take charge and want to control others. Climate-change catastrophe and human migration and immigration are great for corporate and governmental control over people, and we have to contend with that. I should say, I see corporate control behind everything that the government is working on right now.

  Louise Erdrich

  People, Immigration, Crisis

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• We have a huge struggle for our sense of what a democracy is. We're not living in reality when we think we have some sort of democracy. We're really on the edge. We have two presidents who lost the popular vote but won the election. This is not working.

  Louise Erdrich

  Struggle, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• I might not be able to use the word "hope," but I could certainly use the word "optimism." I'm very optimistic. I don't feel that it helps to be pessimistic. At some point in my life I made a conscious decision that I would try to be optimistic - not blind to anything at all - but to always hear the way that had the best chance for happiness.

  Louise Erdrich

  Optimistic, Optimism, Decision

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• It's very hard to track down what's real and what's not real. We haven't absorbed what climate change is doing. Because whether people associate it or not, fear of immigration is completely related to climate change, because the mass migrations that are happening, the war in Syria, all of these structural human migrations are related to climate change.

  Louise Erdrich

  Real, War, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.

  Louise Erdrich

  Thinking, World, Easy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• 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

  Thinking, World, Overwhelmed

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Looking at the shape of the world, I see how we're in a time where women are the subject of hatred, fear, and we have to fight that all the time. I feel that there are fights we take for granted. When I look at the world, I see that women are subject to cruelty. And that's why the global gag rule means so much to me, that the United States wouldn't stand up for the rights and health of women.

  Louise Erdrich

  Mean, Fighting, Hatred

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• The Internet, which seems now so embedded and personal and crucial to our lives, isn't at all - we really shouldn't think of it that way.

  Louise Erdrich

  Thinking, Internet, Embedded

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Now I'm sixty-one... sixty-two, pretty soon. It's a really interesting age. Now we have women of your age, and coming up, and all these fantastic writers, who have managed to have their children but continue with their art, their work. I think women are doing the most interesting writing right now, the most interesting art. I see everything through this lens, of women finally taking their place in the world. Their true place. And it's very, very exciting to me.

  Louise Erdrich

  Art, Children, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

• Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.

  Louise Erdrich

  Break, Protect You, Protect

  "The Painted Drum". Book by Louise Erdrich, www.npr.org. 2005.

• 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

  Character, Work Out, Historical

  "Louise Erdrich and 'The Painted Drum'". "Weekend Edition" with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. October 2, 2005.

• I spend most of my time writing.

  Louise Erdrich

  Writing, My Time

  "Louise Erdrich’s War of the Roses". Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2016.

• 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

  Book, Staff, Handle

  "Louise Erdrich’s War Of The Roses". Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2016.

• If only I had discipline, but alas, it is only an obsessive-compulsive trait and the beauty of habit that causes me to return again and again to my work.

  Louise Erdrich

  Discipline, Obsessive Compulsive, Return

  "Louise Erdrich’s War Of The Roses". Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2016.

• I want to remember what bullshit looks like when weapons of mass destruction are diagrammed out and whacko "intelligence" is delivered in an ominous way to strike fear into people and especially to pull on the idealism and zeal of the young.

  Louise Erdrich

  Mass Destruction, Bullshit, People

  "Louise Erdrich’s War Of The Roses". Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2016.

• 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

  Drawing, Names, Design

  "Louise Erdrich's War of The Roses". Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2016.

• I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I've always switched points of view in my books. I'm a Gemini.

  Louise Erdrich

  Book, Views, Together

  "Louise Erdrich’s War Of The Roses". Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2016.

• Being a girl didn't really affect me until I entered junior high and had to wear skirts, curl my hair, and even get used to panty hose. However, my hatred of panty hose helped make me a writer who only wears comfortable clothes. I've successfully avoided panty hose for most of my life.

  Louise Erdrich

  Girl, Clothes, Hair

  "Louise Erdrich’s War Of The Roses". Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2016.

• Sometimes a person's monstrosity seems superhuman.

  Louise Erdrich

  Sometimes, Monstrosity, Superhuman

  "Louise Erdrich’s War Of The Roses". Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2016.

• 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

  Brother, Writing, Boys

  "Louise Erdrich’s War Of The Roses". Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2016.

• I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions.

  Louise Erdrich

  Boys, Childhood, Way

  "Louise Erdrich’s War Of The Roses". Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2016.

• There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time.

  Louise Erdrich

  Legacy, Violence, Native

  "Conversation: Louise Erdrich on Her New Novel, ‘The Round House’". Interview by Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 19, 2012.

• There are people who are always, I think, going to remain people of the book, to use another author's title, but people of the book, who really must be around.

  Louise Erdrich

  Book, Thinking, People

  "Conversation: Louise Erdrich on Her New Novel, ‘The Round House’". Interview by Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 19, 2012.

• I think one of the reasons to be here on earth is to finally be who we are, at all times - to know and be predictable to ourselves.

  Louise Erdrich

  Thinking, Earth, Who We Are

  "Cross-dressing the Divine". Interview by Josie Rawson, www.motherjones.com. June 2001.

• 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

  Art, Passion, Past

  "Cross-dressing the Divine". Interview by Josie Rawson, www.motherjones.com. June 2001.