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
running heart hands
Freedom, I found is not only in the running but in the heart, the mind, the hands.
mother appreciation heart
In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world...Once we no longer live beneath our mother's heart, it is the earth with which we form the same dependent relationship, relying...on its cycles and elements, helpless without its protective embrace.
death heart different
Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position.
strength love-you heart
You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.
wise heart trying
We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.
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.