Sherman Alexie Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• 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.

  Sherman Alexie

  Book, Kissing, Intelligent

  Sherman Alexie (2016). “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, p.38, Random House

• If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

  Sherman Alexie

  Book, Reading, Writing

  FaceBook post by Sherman Alexie from Jan 30, 2015

• 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.

  Sherman Alexie

  Teenager, Book, Writing

• What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

  Sherman Alexie

  Book, House, Kind

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “Flight: A Novel”, p.16, Open Road Media

• Books and beer are the best and worst defense.

  Sherman Alexie

  Book, Beer, Defense

  Sherman Alexie (1993). “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”, Harper Perennial

• Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' Well, I hate to argue with a Russian genius, but Tolstoy didn't know Indians, and he didn't know that all Indian families are unhappy for the same exact reasons: the frikkin' booze.

  Sherman Alexie

  Hate, Book, Boys

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a book rightfully be called a book if it never gets read? If a tree falls in a forest and gets pulped to make paper for a book that never gets read, but there's nobody there to read it, does it make a sound?

  Sherman Alexie

  Book, Fall, Reading

  Sherman Alexie (2012). “Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories”, p.286, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• The librarian spoke in a reverential whisper. Corliss knew she'd misjudged this passionate woman. Maybe she dressed poorly, but she was probably great in bed, certainly believed in God and goodness, and kept an illicit collection of overdue library books on her shelves.

  Sherman Alexie

  Book, People, Judgement

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “Ten Little Indians”, p.14, Open Road Media

• Bush has not read enough books to have a developed moral sense. The fewer books you read, the easier it is to become fundamental. In some ways my antiwar stand here is also a stand on anti-literacy. Someone should get G.W. into a reading program, get him to join a book club. Have him read Hamlet, King Lear.

  Sherman Alexie

  Kings, Book, Reading

• When I had no money, and a great book came out, I couldn't get it. I had to wait. I love the idea that I have hardcover books here and at home that I haven't read yet. That's how I view that I'm rich. I have hardcover books I may never read.

  Sherman Alexie

  Book, Home, Views

  David Lehman, Sherman Alexie (2015). “The Best American Poetry 2015”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

• Corliss had never once considered the fate of library books. She'd never wondered how many books go unread. She loved books. How could she not worry about the unread? She felt like a disorganized scholar, an inconsiderate lover, an abusive mother, and a cowardly soldier.

  Sherman Alexie

  Mother, Book, Fate

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “Ten Little Indians”, p.14, Open Road Media

• That's right, I am a book kisser.

  Sherman Alexie

  Book

• I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.

  Sherman Alexie

  Book, Taken, Moments

• I used to sleep with my books in piles all over my bed and sometimes they were the only thing keeping me warm and always the only thing keeping me alive. Books are the best and worst defense.

  Sherman Alexie

  Book, Sleep, Bed

  Sherman Alexie (1993). “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”, Harper Perennial

• My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents studied from. That is absolutely the saddest thing in the world.

  Sherman Alexie

  Book, School, Parent

  "Looking Deeper: The Absolutely True Story of a Part - Time Indian". Book by Sherman Alexie, scholar.lib.vt.edu. 2007.

• Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.

  Sherman Alexie

  Book, Three, Three Times

• The people who loved me when I was seven years old love my books, and the people who didn't like me when I was seven years old don't like my books.

  Sherman Alexie

  Book, Years, People

• I refuse to censor myself and kids will find their own way to my books and to all of the books that matter to them. As I write more honestly more kids will make their way toward me. And in subverting their repressive parents kids will learn the value of subverting the repressive nature of all authority figures.

  Sherman Alexie

  Book, Kids, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.

  Sherman Alexie

  Father, Lying, Book

  "Encore: Living Outside Tribal Lines". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. May 31, 2013.

• We can all learn from every text. Reading the work that disgusts you can only strengthen your core beliefs. I could teach a semester-long course based only on reading the local telephone book. All stories can be taught in valuable ways.

  Sherman Alexie

  Book, Reading, Belief

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• I think most Native American literature is unreadable by the vast majority of Native Americans. Generally speaking Indians don't read books. It's not a book culture. That's why I'm trying to make movies. Indians go to movies; Indians own video recorders.

  Sherman Alexie

  Book, Native American, Thinking

  Interview with Joelle Fraser, www.english.illinois.edu. 2001.

• If one reads enough books, one has a fighting chance.

  Sherman Alexie

  Book, Fighting, Enough Chances

• They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg [printing] press. I think TV is the only thing that keeps us vaguely in democracy even if it's in the hands of the corporate culture. If you're an artist you write in your time. Moaning about the fact that maybe people read more books a hundred years ago - that's not true. I think the same percentage has always read.

  Sherman Alexie

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Joelle Fraser, ir.uiowa.edu. 2000.

• Every Indian kid has access to MySpace and Facebook. But that doesn't mean they have access to books and great teachers. This idea about bringing digital tech into schools is great, but once again I'll say that this is not how people actually learn.

  Sherman Alexie

  Teacher, Book, School

• My books for adults had been previously challenged and banned so I'd had experience with it. I always find it sad and amusing: Sad to think that such archaic and potentially dangerous censorious beliefs still exist, and amused because these censors only make a book more powerful and seductive when trying to ban it.

  Sherman Alexie

  Powerful, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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