Top 50 Quotes by Sherman Alexie

A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.

I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it.

Certainly I'm angry at the way Indians have been treated and continue to be treated. But I don't think it's a helpless emotion.

There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.

The people who loved me when I was seven years old love my books, and the people who didn't like me when I was seven years old don't like my books.

All art is exploitation.

I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.

I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.

I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.

I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.