Louise Erdrich Quotes

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing.

You can't sit down and decide what you want to write about.

I love writing. I've pursued it with a passion.

Every day I fantasise about situations and little themes I see in front of me that would make a good beginning of a story. But one has to be disciplined and just sit down and do it.

I'm addicted to creating and writing.

I'm always writing. A friend of mine once said, 'You avoid re-writing by writing.' Which is kind of a good point, because re-writing seems to be mostly about craft, and writing is just, like, getting out your passion on a piece of paper.

I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

Ever since I was twelve, I dreamed of being an author. I just never had the fortitude to see any of my stories through to completion. I would start a book, get a few chapters in, and grow bored or get distracted by something else.

A story in your head isn't a story. It's just a daydream until you actually write it down. So write it down.

When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart.

What I tell young writers is to find those things that you're so passionate about that your energy doesn't run away.

In a way, I started 'Goon Squad' not even realizing I was writing a book. I thought I was just writing a few stories to stall before starting this other book that I wanted to write - or thought I wanted to write: I still haven't written it.

All my writer friends outline their books, and I find that hard. It doesn't feel inspired to me. I get bored with that, and really, I just want it to be fun.

I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was good to be task - based for a while. I just came downstairs each day, picked the one I was going to do that day, and wrote.

I used to get up and write every day, even if I wasn't working on a specific thing. Now, when I have a thing I'm in the middle of, I do that, but when I'm not, time can go by when I'm not writing at all.

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

I've always been a writer.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.

How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'

The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.

I do have fun writing, and a long time ago, I told myself, 'You got to have fun at this, or it'll drive you nuts.'