“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.” WayFeelsI CanBookSometimesEnoughMomentsHomeFallReadingImaginePaperPapersOverflowRight Moment Book:Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling Through the Land of My Ancestors Source: Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling Through the Land of My Ancestors
“[On her and husband Michael Dorris:] We both have title collections. I think a title is like a magnet. It begins to draw these scraps of experience or conversation or memory to it. Eventually, it collects a book.” ThinkingBookMemoriesHusbandConversationDrawsTitlesCollectionsScrapMagnet Book:Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris Source: Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris
“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.” IfsNeedsBelieveHas BeensBookApproachFinishedCopies Author: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.” PeopleThinkingBookUseTitles Author:Louise Erdrich
“I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I've always switched points of view in my books. I'm a Gemini.” WayBookStoriesTogetherViewsPoint Of View Author:Louise Erdrich
“I am at the bookstore a lot, but let my friends, the professional Birchbark Books staff, handle the day in and day out.” BookMy FriendsHandleStaffBookstores Author:Louise Erdrich
“She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been caught up in one such collection of people and their doings after the next…The pleasure of this sort of life – bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life – had made her isolation into a rich and even subversive thing. She inhabited one consoling or horrifying persona after another…That she was childless and husbandless and poor meant less once she picked up a book. Her mistakes disappeared into it. She lived with an invented force.” PeopleMadeBookMightJobsReadingNextForcePleasurePoorMistakeRichReaderDiscoveryCaughtObsessedIsolationCollectionsCaught UpPersonaSubversiveDoingsConsolingReading Life Author:Louise Erdrich
“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.” IfsWritingStillsBookWould BeWantedSecretI Realized Author:Louise Erdrich
