Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
All art is exploitation.
Poetry = Anger x Imagination
My father is an amazing man.
Writing is a lonely business.
All I owe the world is my art.
That's right, I am a book kisser.
I'm a poet who can whine in meter
The ordinary can be like medicine.
Don't live up to your stereotypes.
I think I was born with a suitcase.
Spiritual matters should be private.
White Americans have a short memory.
I look more Indian when I'm serious.
We only know how to lose and be lost.
Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.
If it's fiction, then it better be true.
We're all travelling heavy with illusions.
One play can change your momentum forever.
Let us now celebrate the literary allusion.
Pain is never added to pain. It multiplies.
It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.
Books and beer are the best and worst defense.
I love to scare the already terrified assholes.
Summer coming like a car from down the highway.
What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.
I drew because words were too unpredictable. (5)
We all have to find our own ways to say good-bye.
I feel like a carton of eggs holding up an elephant.
He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody.
If one reads enough books, one has a fighting chance.
Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
Funny how a little politeness can change people's minds.
My name is Sherman J. Alexie Jr., and I am an insomniac.
What kind of life can you have in a house without books?
Is revenge a circle inside of a circle inside of a circle?
That's the whole point of life, you know? To meet new people.
Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works.
But the real interesting stuff is in the cellar and the attic.
Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.
If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.
I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.
The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.
She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks.
Is God a man or a woman? God could be an armadillo. I have no idea.
I'm quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird
Humor was an antiseptic that cleaned the deepest of personal wounds.
Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.
My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.
Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.
Most of my heroes are just decent people. Decency is rare and underrated.