Sherman Alexie Quotes

The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when their emotional lives are just as complicated as ours. They might have a few less tools to deal with it because they're young, but the emotions are all the same, and the subject matter is all the same.

Sherman Alexie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 7, 1966

Topics

SimpleThinkToolsProblemEmotions

When you solve big, hard problems, problems that fundamentally improve how an industry works, financial returns follow, giving you resources to do more of the same.

Joe Lonsdale

ProblemsFinancialGivingYouFollow

You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.

Joan Didion

DecisionYouRightAnythingSure

It is extremely important to me to write for children.

Stephen Hawking

ChildrenMeImportantWrite

My cream and black Aga. It is the heart of the house, and people congregate around it.

Sue Townsend

HeartPeopleBlackHouseCream

I find it very easy to be alone. I'm a writer, for heaven's sakes!

Simon Mawer

AloneEasyFindHeavenWriterVery

I like the anonymity, the fact that you're a stranger making strangers laugh. You aren't forcing them to laugh - it's involuntary, and that's when they give the most honest response.

Trevor Noah

LaughYouStrangersStrangerHonest

I love magazines and film critics, so I eat it up. I'm not one of those people who says 'I never read anything.' I generally read all of it.

Judd Apatow

LovePeopleNeverEatUpAnything

A huge part of making something work is getting along with people you work with. You want them to succeed; you want them to bring their ideas to life as much as possible.

Jonathan Krisel

LifeWorkPeopleIdeasSucceedYou

I persist in performing.

David Tudor

PerformingPersist

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

Audre Lorde

CelebrateDifferencesAcceptUsOur

Sometimes music should just be about you sitting on your bedroom floor, or in the back of the car, singing along stupidly. Evan Dando's music was all about that for me.

Sharon Van Etten

CarMusicMeSingingYouBack

I prayed, thanking God, for making it all possible for me, because I knew where I came from.

Thomas Hearns

GodMePossibleWhereBecauseKnew

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