American - Writer | October 7, 1966 -
But the real interesting stuff is in the cellar and the attic.
Sherman Alexie
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Don't live up to your stereotypes.
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We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization.
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I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.
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I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has changed.
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When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.
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I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.
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