...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 More Quotes by Louise Erdrich More Quotes From Louise Erdrich There are people who are always, I think, going to remain people of the book, to use another author's title, but people of the book, who really must be around. Louise Erdrich book people thinking I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not? Louise Erdrich why-not tears thinking You never know where you're going to find the same thoughts in another brain, but when it happens you know it right off, just like you were connected by a small electrical wire that suddenly glows red hot and sparks. Louise Erdrich wire understanding brain Now that I knew fear, I also knew it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would pass. Louise Erdrich powerful permanent Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very quickly I would be smoothed away. Louise Erdrich rushing rocks time I can't imagine a home without an overflow of books. The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough, or the right one at the right moment, but then sometimes to find you'd longed to fall asleep reading the Aspern Papers, and there it is. Louise Erdrich reading book fall All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. ... That in her creation of her children there should be the unspeakable promise of their death, for by their birth she had created mortal beings. Louise Erdrich our-actions children promise I might not be able to use the word "hope," but I could certainly use the word "optimism." I'm very optimistic. I don't feel that it helps to be pessimistic. At some point in my life I made a conscious decision that I would try to be optimistic - not blind to anything at all - but to always hear the way that had the best chance for happiness. Louise Erdrich optimism optimistic decision As soon as there's a crisis, there are people who take charge and want to control others. Climate-change catastrophe and human migration and immigration are great for corporate and governmental control over people, and we have to contend with that. I should say, I see corporate control behind everything that the government is working on right now. Louise Erdrich crisis immigration people It's very hard to track down what's real and what's not real. We haven't absorbed what climate change is doing. Because whether people associate it or not, fear of immigration is completely related to climate change, because the mass migrations that are happening, the war in Syria, all of these structural human migrations are related to climate change. Louise Erdrich real war people It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable. Louise Erdrich easy world thinking Looking at the shape of the world, I see how we're in a time where women are the subject of hatred, fear, and we have to fight that all the time. I feel that there are fights we take for granted. When I look at the world, I see that women are subject to cruelty. And that's why the global gag rule means so much to me, that the United States wouldn't stand up for the rights and health of women. Louise Erdrich fighting hatred mean The Internet, which seems now so embedded and personal and crucial to our lives, isn't at all - we really shouldn't think of it that way. Louise Erdrich embedded internet thinking Add there was that moment when my mother and father walked in the door disguised as old people. I thought the miles in the car had bent them, dulled their eyes, even grayed and whitened their hair and caused their hands and voices to tremble. At the same time, I found, as I rose form the chair, I'd gotten old along with them. Louise Erdrich eye mother father To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life. Louise Erdrich land class blood Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears. Louise Erdrich safety-pins clothes tears The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes. Louise Erdrich truth-is eye crosses Power travels in the bloodlines, handed out before birth. Louise Erdrich bloodline birth power If, as I suspect, my body survives by uttering itself over and over again, then I have some questions. If [I] am one word, so are my daughters, so are all of us in strings and loops. Each life is one short word slowly uttered. Louise Erdrich daughter body life-is You really need to approach each book as if you have been a failure. . . . If you start to believe your flap-copy, you're finished as a writer. Louise Erdrich believe book needs
