Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich is an Ojibwe writer of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings. She is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, a band of the Anishinaabe...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth7 June 1954
CountryUnited States of America
History works itself out in the living.
rain world arms
I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.
thinking tears doorways
I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?
parent way abandoned
There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there.
talking discouraged grew
I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.
beautiful humble purpose
...which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as humble as the spider's, what is beautiful that I make? What is elegant? What feeds the world?
art passion past
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.
writing way i-can
By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.
men body bones
Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.
rivers ice chaos
Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.
character work-out historical
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.
life perfect garments
We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.
writing trying crude
It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.
america columbus new-places
Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.