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Sherman Alexie quotes about writing

American Writer October 7, 1966

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I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited. If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning. But when you draw a picture everybody can understand it. If I draw a cartoon of a flower, then every man, woman, and child in the world can look at it and say, "That's a flower. Sherman Alexie
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. Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie quote: "Writing is a lonely business."
Writing is a lonely business. Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie quote: "If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time."
If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time. Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie quote: "When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note..."
When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author. Sherman Alexie
Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations. Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie quote: "My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians,..."
My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror. Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie quote: "Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write."
Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write. Sherman Alexie
I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature. Sherman Alexie
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. Sherman Alexie

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