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
husband simple hands
Her mind was present because she was always gone. Her hands were filled because they grasped the meaning of empty. Life was simple. Her husband returned and she served him with indifferent patience this time. When he asked what had happened to her heat for him, she gestured to the west. The sun was setting. The sky was a body of fire.
running heart hands
Freedom, I found is not only in the running but in the heart, the mind, the hands.
thinking hands illness
I am part of what she thinks is her illness, a symptom of which she thinks she has been cured. She, on the other hand, is what I was looking for.
cousin hands games
Society is like this card game here, cousin. We got dealt our hand before we were even born, and as we grow we have to play as best as we can.
women hands wind
When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.
words
It was enough just to sit there without words.
cuisine evolving people talking whatever whose
You're talking about evolving a cuisine from a people whose cuisine has been whatever we could get for a long time.
thinking earth who-we-are
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.
boys childhood way
I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions.
sometimes monstrosity persons
Sometimes a person's monstrosity seems superhuman.
girl hair panty-hose
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.
names drawing design
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.
book staff handle
I am at the bookstore a lot, but let my friends, the professional Birchbark Books staff, handle the day in and day out.
brother writing boys
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.