Louise Erdrich Quotes (14 Quotes)


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

    Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.

    She also tempers emotion with wry perspective. A woman driven to infamy by passion cannot have the man she loves. As women have found since love began, ... she found she could live.

    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.

    You're talking about evolving a cuisine from a people whose cuisine has been whatever we could get for a long time.


    They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were they all fused into a single stubbornness.

    His thoughts swam between us, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling my own words like baits and lures.

    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.

    For a short while, our mothers bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world. Once we no longer live beneath our mother's heart, it's the earth with which we form the same dependent relationship.

    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.

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

    In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape, For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world.

    I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.



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