Quotes About Sherman Alexie

There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.

He likes to pretend he lives inside the comic books. I guess a fake life inside a cartoon is a lot better than his real life.

My memory is strange that way. I often remember people I've never met and events and places I've never seen. I don't think I'm some mystical bastard. I just think I pay attention to the details.

Sure, we thought the acres That we tilled were sacred, But how could we have known That wheat can haunt like ghosts

If the government wants to hide somebody, there's probably no place more isolated than my reservation, which is located approximately one million miles north of Important and two billion miles west of Happy.

Listen said Mather. I understand what you're going through, I really do. An Indian woman in college. I understand. I'm a Marxist. Really, said Marie. I'm a Libra.

That's right I am a book kisser. Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent.

Well, I don't mean boner in the sexual sense," Gordy said. "I don't think you should run through life with a real erect penis. But you should approach each book—you should approach life—with the real possibility that you might get a metaphorical boner at any point.

Words can be like that, you know? Whenever I get into arguments now, I remember her and I also remember Muhammad Ali. He knew the power of his fists but, more importantly, he knew the power of his words, too.

If you can catch crazy, I'm a walking epidemic.

She'd been a resourceful thief, a narcissistic Robin Hood who stole a rich education from white people and kept it.

I don't think you should run through life with a real erect penis. But you should approach life – with the real possibility that you might get a metaphorical boner at any point.

She never opened up a canyon in her soul and silently disappeared into the dark recesses.

You've got a lot of crafty ambition for an Indian boy who can't sew for shit.

I have boys, and boys are particularly resistant to reading books. I had some success recently with Sherman Alexie's great young adult novel 'The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian.' I told my son it was highly inappropriate for him and one of the most banned books in America. That got his attention, and he raced through it.

I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.