Louise Erdrich

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.

My parents' marriage is a gift to everyone around them - 60 years of making their kids laugh. How many parents are actually funny?

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

The caricatures that the mainstream media and the Democrats have about Republicans have taken hold.

As a writer, I try to do different things, but I'm not going to become a darker artist or turn into Radiohead overnight. I don't think that's my style.