Louise Erdrich Quotes - Page 6

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• 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.

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• 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

  Faith, Might, Belief

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• But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.

  Louise Erdrich

  Facts, Embellishment, Ifs

  Louise Erdrich (2009). “The Plague of Doves: Deluxe Modern Classic”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.

  Louise Erdrich

  Writing, Trying, Crude

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

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• 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

  Order, Brain, Trying

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• I tried out the unfamiliar syllables. They fit. They cracked in my ears like a fist through ice.

  Louise Erdrich

  Ice, Ears, Fists

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• 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.

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• Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very quickly I would be smoothed away.

  Louise Erdrich

  Time, Rocks, Rushing

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.97, Odyssey Editions

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• All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. ... That in her creation of her children there should be the unspeakable promise of their death, for by their birth she had created mortal beings.

  Louise Erdrich

  Children, Promise, Our Actions

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• He had a thousand-year-old stare.

  Louise Erdrich

  Years, Staring, Thousand

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I am part of what she thinks is her illness, a symptom of which she thinks she has been cured. She, on the other hand, is what I was looking for.

  Louise Erdrich

  Thinking, Hands, Illness

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• [On her and husband Michael Dorris:] We both have title collections. I think a title is like a magnet. It begins to draw these scraps of experience or conversation or memory to it. Eventually, it collects a book.

  Louise Erdrich

  Memories, Husband, Book

  Louise Erdrich, Michael Dorris, Allan Richard Chavkin, Nancy Feyl Chavkin (1994). “Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris”, p.176, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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.

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• They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

  Louise Erdrich

  Time, Strong, Belief

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.14, Odyssey Editions

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• 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.

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• The only answer to this, and it isn't an entire answer, said Father Travis, is that God made human beings free agents. We are able to choose good over evil, but the opposite too. And in order to protect our human freedom, God doesn't often, very often at least, intervene. God can't do that without taking away our moral freedom. Do you see? No. But yeah. The only thing that God can do, and does all of the time, is to draw good from any evil situation.

  Louise Erdrich

  Father, Order, Opposites

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• Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.

  Louise Erdrich

  Lasts, Old Love, Kind

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• If, as I suspect, my body survives by uttering itself over and over again, then I have some questions. If [I] am one word, so are my daughters, so are all of us in strings and loops. Each life is one short word slowly uttered.

  Louise Erdrich

  Daughter, Body, Life Is

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• ...whom he had saved from a life of excessive freedom

  Louise Erdrich

  Saved

  Louise Erdrich (2009). “The Plague of Doves: Deluxe Modern Classic”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.

  Louise Erdrich

  House, Revision, Triggers

  Louise Erdrich (2009). “The Painted Drum: A Novel”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• 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

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• Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.

  Louise Erdrich

  Safety Pins, Clothes, Tears

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• I spend my time dwelling on revenge and try to deal with the monsters crawling out of the ashes.

  Louise Erdrich

  Revenge, Dwelling, Trying

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