Louise Erdrich Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.

  Louise Erdrich

  Writing, People, Impossible

• It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to. And even once I realized that they were being read, I still wrote as if I were writing in secret. That's how one has to write anyway--in secret.

  Louise Erdrich

  Book, Writing, Secret

• I have brothers and was a tomboy, if that's still a designation. It wasn't a stretch for me to think and write as a 13-year-old boy - it is freeing.

  Louise Erdrich

  Brother, Writing, Boys

  "Louise Erdrich’s War Of The Roses". Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2016.

• I spend most of my time writing.

  Louise Erdrich

  Writing, My Time

  "Louise Erdrich’s War of the Roses". Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2016.

• 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

  Art, Children, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

• By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.

  Louise Erdrich

  Writing, Way, I Can

• It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.

  Louise Erdrich

  Writing, Trying, Crude

  "Cross-dressing the Divine". Interview by Josie Rawson, www.motherjones.com. June 2001.

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