I realized that I might be a lonely Indian boy, but I was not alone in the loneliness. There were millions of other Americans who had left their birthplaces in search of a dream. (217) Sherman Alexie More Quotes by Sherman Alexie More Quotes From Sherman Alexie Nobody recognizes that a bookstore or library can also be a drowning polar bear. And in this country [US], magazines, newspapers, and bookstores are drowning polar bears. And if people can't see that or don't want to talk about it, I don't understand them at all. Sherman Alexie library country people Books and beer are the best and worst defense. Sherman Alexie defense beer book If it's fiction, then it better be true. Sherman Alexie being-true ifs fiction Every movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred. Sherman Alexie tortillas sacred mystery It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed to disappear. But somehow or another, Indians have forgotten the reservations were meant to be death camps. Sherman Alexie were-meant-to-be prison moving The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when their emotional lives are just as complicated as ours. They might have a few less tools to deal with it because they're young, but the emotions are all the same, and the subject matter is all the same. Sherman Alexie emotional simple kids I was studying the sky like I was an astronomer, except it was daytime and I didn't have a telescope, so I was just an idiot. Sherman Alexie telescopes study sky The percentage of Indian kids doing some sort of artistic work is much higher than in the general population - painting, drawing, dancing, singing. The creation of art is still an everyday part of Indian culture, unlike the dominant culture, where art is sort of peripheral. Sherman Alexie drawing kids art Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write. Sherman Alexie pages writing When you're depressed, you know, it's like the world has ended. Even getting out of bed takes the most massive amount of effort. But when you're manic, oh, it's so addicting. You know, I have finished novels in two weeks in manic stages. Sherman Alexie effort bed two Well, as a native, as a colonized people you do live in the in between. The thing is I'm native. But necessarily because I'm a member of the country, I'm also a White American. Sherman Alexie white country people Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito. Sherman Alexie funny-food burritos thinking And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God. Sherman Alexie chickens pieces believe Poetry = Anger x Imagination Sherman Alexie anger imagination Do you understand how amazing it is to hear that from an adult? Do you know how amazing it is to hear that from anybody? It's one of the simplest sentences in the world, just four words, but they're the four hugest words in the world when they're put together. You can do it. Sherman Alexie four together world I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it. Sherman Alexie tired writing order When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing. Sherman Alexie laughter tears knows If a parent doesn't want his/her child to read a book then there is always an alternative text to read. But the book banners want to control what every child reads. Sherman Alexie parent book children she braided my sister's hair with hands that smelled deep roots buried in the earth she told me the old stories how time never mattered when she died they gave me her clock Sherman Alexie roots hair hands When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author. Sherman Alexie thanks pieces writing
