Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that. And living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on Earth. Louise Erdrich More Quotes by Louise Erdrich More Quotes From Louise Erdrich Life is made up of three kinds of people -- those who live it, those afraid to, those in between. Louise Erdrich three life people ...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 spiders humble beautiful I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms. Louise Erdrich arms rain world 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 cousin games hands 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 belief faith might People forget the good, because the bad has more punch. Louise Erdrich good-and-evil evil people 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 resilience small-town towns 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 irritated here-i-am feels But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts. Louise Erdrich embellishment ifs facts 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 struggle reality thinking The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide. Louise Erdrich size ignorance sky Love. The black hook. The spear singing through the mind. Louise Erdrich black mind love What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery. Louise Erdrich endurance adventure men 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 stitches prayer men We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going. Louise Erdrich persist sorrow forever Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies. Louise Erdrich strong inspiring baby 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 evil order father What is this life but the sound of an appalling love. Louise Erdrich this-life sound 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 writing children art 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. Louise Erdrich drawing design names
