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My father is my biggest literary influence. Recently, I've been looking through his letters. He was in the National Guard when I was a child, and whenever he left, he would write to me. He wrote letters to me all through college, and we still correspond. His letters, and my mother's, are one of my life's treasures.
- Louise Erdrich
#Father
#Influence
#Life
#Looking
#Me
You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.
- Louise Erdrich
#Fall
#Know
#Never
#People
#Time
It was enough just to sit there without words.
- Louise Erdrich
#Enough
#Just
#Sit
#Without
#Words
Talking about how I might write the next book is like talking about whether or not to have sex. Any dithering ruins it.
- Louise Erdrich
#About
#Book
#Next
#Sex
#Talking
I have never fully exorcised shames that struck me to the heart as a child except through written violence, shadowy caricature, and dark jokes.
- Louise Erdrich
#Dark
#Heart
#Me
#Never
#Violence
Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.
- Louise Erdrich
#Go Away
#Go
#Love
#Push
#Side
Revenge is a sorrow for the person who has to take it on. And the person who is rash enough to think it's going to help a situation is always wrong.
- Louise Erdrich
#Help
#Person
#Revenge
#Situation
#Sorrow
I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.
- Louise Erdrich
#Death
#Discouraged
#Get
#Talking
#Well
There are several kinds of land on reservations. And all of these pieces of land have different entities who are in charge of enforcing laws on this land.
- Louise Erdrich
#Charge
#Kinds
#Land
#Laws
#Who
I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.
- Louise Erdrich
#Arms
#Lived
#Love
#Whole
#World
My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there. He had just been discharged from the Air Force. He went to school on the GI Bill and got his teaching credentials. He is adventurous - he worked his way through Alaska at age seventeen and paid for his living expenses by winning at the poker table.
- Louise Erdrich
#Age
#Father
#Home
#School
#Winning
I'd love to meet my ancestors. I'd love to be able to speak to them.
- Louise Erdrich
#Ancestors
#Love
#Meet
#Speak
#Them
Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
- Louise Erdrich
#America
#New Place
#New
#Only
#Place
Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with.
- Louise Erdrich
#I Am
#Love
#Must
#Place
#She
What I see in the book is an exquisite form of technology: one that doesn't require a power source and can be passed from hand to hand and lasts a lot longer than an electronic reader.
- Louise Erdrich
#Book
#I See
#Power
#See
#Technology
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