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Louise Erdrich is an American writer known for her unique literary style and profound depiction of Native American culture. Her works blend elements of ethnicity, history, and literature, enjoying great popularity among readers.

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“[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.”

Thinking Book Memories Husband Conversation Draws Titles Collections Scrap Magnet

Book:Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris

Source: Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris

“To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.”

Thinking Way Art Together Past Political Passion Political Correctness Correctness Love And Passion

Author:Louise Erdrich

“I think one of the reasons to be here on earth is to finally be who we are, at all times - to know and be predictable to ourselves.”

Thinking Knows Reason Earth All Time Who We Are Predictable

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.”

People Thinking Book Use Titles

Author:Louise Erdrich

“I truly think that you can't go and stalk your material, you have to leave the door open and whatever chooses you, chooses you. You can't go and wrestle it to the ground.”

Thinking Doors Materials You Choose Stalking

Author:Louise Erdrich

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Years Stills Boys Brother Designation

Author:Louise Erdrich

“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.”

Thinking World Writing Children Art Age Interesting Exciting Fantastic Most Interesting Really Interesting

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“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.”

Thinking Internet Embedded

Author:Louise Erdrich

“It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.”

Thinking World Easy

Author:Louise Erdrich

“I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed by the science world.”

Thinking World Poet Overwhelmed

Author:Louise Erdrich

“We have a huge struggle for our sense of what a democracy is. We're not living in reality when we think we have some sort of democracy. We're really on the edge. We have two presidents who lost the popular vote but won the election. This is not working.”

Thinking Reality President Struggle Democracy Vote Election

Author:Louise Erdrich

“Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me. Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.”

Thinking Facts Wish I Loved You

Author:Louise Erdrich

“I am part of what she thinks is her illness, a symptom of which she thinks she has been cured. She, on the other hand, is what I was looking for.”

Thinking Has Beens Hands Illness Symptoms

Author:Louise Erdrich

“I think she is confused by the way I want her, which is like nobody else. I know this deep down. I want her in a new way, a way she's never been told about.”

Thinking Knows Way Want Love Confused New Ways Deep Down

Author:Louise Erdrich

“I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?”

Thinking Tears Why Not Doorways

Author:Louise Erdrich

“Money helps, though not so much as you think when you don't have it.”

Thinking Helping Money

Author:Louise Erdrich

About the Author

Born: June 7, 1954
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 203

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Love MedicineRelated source material

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