It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics. Louise Erdrich More Quotes by Louise Erdrich More Quotes From Louise Erdrich I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed by the science world. Louise Erdrich overwhelmedworldthinking Life is made up of three kinds of people -- those who live it, those afraid to, those in between. Louise Erdrich threelifepeople ...which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as humble as the spider's, what is beautiful that I make? What is elegant? What feeds the world? Louise Erdrich spidershumblebeautiful I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms. Louise Erdrich armsrainworld 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. Louise Erdrich cousingameshands I thought how we might have to yell to be heard by Higher Power, but that's not saying it's not there. And that is faith for you. It's belief even when the gods don't deliver. Louise Erdrich belieffaithmight People forget the good, because the bad has more punch. Louise Erdrich good-and-evilevilpeople When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished. Louise Erdrich resiliencesmall-towntowns Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, the place to love and be irritated with. Louise Erdrich irritatedhere-i-amfeels But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts. Louise Erdrich embellishmentifsfacts We have a huge struggle for our sense of what a democracy is. We're not living in reality when we think we have some sort of democracy. We're really on the edge. We have two presidents who lost the popular vote but won the election. This is not working. Louise Erdrich strugglerealitythinking The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide. Louise Erdrich sizeignorancesky Love. The black hook. The spear singing through the mind. Louise Erdrich blackmindlove What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery. Louise Erdrich enduranceadventuremen To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of the creator in the work of the needle. Louise Erdrich stitchesprayermen We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going. Louise Erdrich persistsorrowforever Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies. Louise Erdrich stronginspiringbaby In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself, Father Trais went on. Everything out in the world is also in you. Good, bad, evil, perfection, death, everything. So we study our souls. Louise Erdrich evilorderfather What is this life but the sound of an appalling love. Louise Erdrich this-lifesound Now I'm sixty-one... sixty-two, pretty soon. It's a really interesting age. Now we have women of your age, and coming up, and all these fantastic writers, who have managed to have their children but continue with their art, their work. I think women are doing the most interesting writing right now, the most interesting art. I see everything through this lens, of women finally taking their place in the world. Their true place. And it's very, very exciting to me. Louise Erdrich writingchildrenart
