He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody. Sherman Alexie More Quotes by Sherman Alexie More Quotes From Sherman Alexie When I had no money, and a great book came out, I couldn't get it. I had to wait. I love the idea that I have hardcover books here and at home that I haven't read yet. That's how I view that I'm rich. I have hardcover books I may never read. Sherman Alexie views home book Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it. Sherman Alexie three-times three book ...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. Sherman Alexie cancer dying heart Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions. Sherman Alexie player baseball mother It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame. Sherman Alexie oil running world Bush has not read enough books to have a developed moral sense. The fewer books you read, the easier it is to become fundamental. In some ways my antiwar stand here is also a stand on anti-literacy. Someone should get G.W. into a reading program, get him to join a book club. Have him read Hamlet, King Lear. Sherman Alexie reading kings book I think I was born with a suitcase. Sherman Alexie suitcases born thinking In the middle of a crazy and drunk life, you have to hang onto the good and sober moments tightly. Sherman Alexie sober drunk crazy I'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious. Sherman Alexie dubious might war If I were a doctor nobody would be inviting me to talk to reservations. I'd be a different person. Writers can influence more people. Sherman Alexie doctors different people I think most Native American literature is unreadable by the vast majority of Native Americans. Generally speaking Indians don't read books. It's not a book culture. That's why I'm trying to make movies. Indians go to movies; Indians own video recorders. Sherman Alexie native-american book thinking Only in rock music and the literary world you see so many ugly white guys with beautiful women. That says a lot about the women, their character. They're attracted to more than surface. Sherman Alexie white beautiful character Indians have no monopoly on environmentalism. That's one of the great myths. But we were subsistence livers. They're two different things. Environmentalism is a conscious choice and subsistence is the absence of choice. We had to use everything to survive. And now that we've been assimilated and colonized and we have luxuries and excesses, we're just as wasteful as other people. Sherman Alexie luxury two people I write less about alcohol, less and less and less. You 're an addict - so of course you write about the thing you love most. I loved alcohol the most, loved it more than anybody or anything. That's what I wrote about. And it certainly accounted for some great writing. But it accounted for two or three years of good writing - it would never account for 20 years of good writing. I would have turned into Charles Bukowski. He wrote 10,000 poems and 10 of them were great. Sherman Alexie writing two years The problem for me with liberals is that we've abdicated our moral responsibility to the universe. Sherman Alexie moral problem responsibility They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg [printing] press. I think TV is the only thing that keeps us vaguely in democracy even if it's in the hands of the corporate culture. If you're an artist you write in your time. Moaning about the fact that maybe people read more books a hundred years ago - that's not true. I think the same percentage has always read. Sherman Alexie writing book thinking I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage. Sherman Alexie agendas selfishness thinking Because I'm an American, I know there's all sorts of international folks who would gladly kidnap and behead me. Sherman Alexie international folks knows Every Indian kid has access to MySpace and Facebook. But that doesn't mean they have access to books and great teachers. This idea about bringing digital tech into schools is great, but once again I'll say that this is not how people actually learn. Sherman Alexie teacher book school I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in. Sherman Alexie poor-people poor people
