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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.

I write first drafts by hand. Never do I open an umbrella inside the house. I don't predict wins or losses. I used to stand on a certain piece of rug if my brothers and husband were watching football and their team got in trouble - but now the luck went out of that rug. If a circle is involved, I try to go clockwise.

Louise Erdrich

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

Louise Erdrich

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.

Louise Erdrich

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

Louise Erdrich

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

Louise Erdrich

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

Louise Erdrich

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

Louise Erdrich

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.

Louise Erdrich

I live on the margin of just about everything. I'm a marginal person, and I think that is where I've become comfortable. I'm marginally there in my native life. I can do as much as I can, but I'm always German, too, you know, and I'm always a mother. That's my first identity, but I'm always a writer, too.

Louise Erdrich

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Louise Erdrich

My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there. He had just been discharged from the Air Force. He went to school on the GI Bill and got his teaching credentials. He is adventurous - he worked his way through Alaska at age seventeen and paid for his living expenses by winning at the poker table.

Louise Erdrich

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

Louise Erdrich

I grew up in North Dakota around Dakota and Ojibwe people, and also small-town people in Wahpeton. Writers make few choices, really, about their material. We have to write about what comes naturally and what interests us - so I do.

Louise Erdrich

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

Louise Erdrich

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

Louise Erdrich

Nothing I write ever has a moral. If it seems to a reader that there is one, that is unintentional.

Louise Erdrich

Talking about how I might write the next book is like talking about whether or not to have sex. Any dithering ruins it.

Louise Erdrich