359 Quotes by Louise Erdrich

So I was, like most artists, deformed by my art.

Money helps, though not so much as you think when you don’t have it.

She smelled of Marlboros, Aviance Night Musk, and her first drink of the late afternoon.

Revenge is a sorrow for the person who has to take it on. And the person who is rash enough to think it's going to help a situation is always wrong.

What I see in the book is an exquisite form of technology: one that doesn't require a power source and can be passed from hand to hand and lasts a lot longer than an electronic reader.

There are several kinds of land on reservations. And all of these pieces of land have different entities who are in charge of enforcing laws on this land.

Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with.

Nothing I force myself to write about ever turns out well, and so I've learned to wait for the voice, the incident, the image that reverberates.

I'd love to meet my ancestors. I'd love to be able to speak to them.