359 Quotes by Louise Erdrich

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.

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.

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

By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.

Sometimes a person's monstrosity seems superhuman.

Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.

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.

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.

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.