Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie
Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr., born October 7, 1966) is an American poet, writer, and filmmaker. Much of his writing draws on his experiences as a Native American with ancestry from several tribes. He grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation and now lives in Seattle, Washington...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 October 1966
CityWelpinet, WA
CountryUnited States of America
cancer heart dying
...And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart dying of terminal nostalgia.
culture storytelling grew
I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.
order culture ceremony
I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.
art art-is exploitation
All art is exploitation.
men imagination romance
And then I realized that my sister was trying to LIVE a romance novel. Man, that takes courage and imagination. Well, it also took some degree of mental illness, too, but I was suddenly happy for her. And a little scared. Well, a lot scared.
book independent roots
I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.
wall broken promise
But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.
book three three-times
Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.
arrogance tipping be-kind
[F]rank knew he was guilty of arrogance and misanthropy, but he compensated by being kind to strangers and tipping really well at restaurants.
past skeletons watches
Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don't wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is.
play forever momentum
One play can change your momentum forever.
pain dad differences
What's the difference between bulimics and anorexics?" I ask. "Anorexics are anorexics all the time," she says, "I'm only bulimic when I'm throwing up." Wow. She sounds just like my dad! "I'm only an alcoholic when I get drunk." There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. Penelope gorges on her pain and then throws it up and flushes it away. My dad drinks his pain away. (107)
perseverance giving lessons
Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.
two definitions partners
and then she asks me how many sexual partners I've had and I say one or two depending on your definition of what I did to Custer . . .