Top 28 Quotes by Louise Erdrich

I grew up in Wahpeton, N.D., and I didn't leave until I was 18, and I've kept going back.

I have never fully exorcised shames that struck me to the heart as a child except through written violence, shadowy caricature, and dark jokes.

I have to write. I have to be an artist.

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.

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.

Nothing I force myself to write about ever turns out well, and so I've learned to wait for the voice, the incident, the image that reverberates.

On any state elections map, the reservations are blue places. Native people are most often progressives, Democrats, and by no means gun-toting vigilantes.

I rarely step on sidewalk cracks. I don't wear a watch. I touch my favorite tree before going on long trips.

I'd love to meet my ancestors. I'd love to be able to speak to them.

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.