359 Quotes by Louise Erdrich

I am at the bookstore a lot, but let my friends, the professional Birchbark Books staff, handle the day in and day out.

We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.

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.

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

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.

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.

my mind ran over scenes of Shesheeb seducing Margaret until I was a wagon dragged by the runaway horses of my jealousy.

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

I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land.