Sherman Alexie Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot of Native American literature is stuck in one idea: sort of spiritual, environmentalist Indians. And I want to portray everyday lives. I think by doing that, by portraying the ordinary lives of Indians, perhaps people learn something new.

  Sherman Alexie

  Spiritual, Native American, Thinking

• 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

  Book, Native American, Thinking

  Interview with Joelle Fraser, www.english.illinois.edu. 2001.

• A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.

  Sherman Alexie

  Garden, Ideas, Eden

• I thought I’d been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing Y.A.

  Sherman Alexie

  Writing, Adults, Literature

  "I’m Y.A., and I’m O.K". Interview with Margo Rabb, www.nytimes.com. July 20, 2008.

• There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.

  Sherman Alexie

  Thinking, Adults, Literature

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