Sherman Alexie Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“My name is Sherman J. Alexie Jr., and I am an insomniac.”

“My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.”

“Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.”

“I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.”

“In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'”

“The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet.”

“There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.”

“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.”

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