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Writing is a lonely business.

The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.

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If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.

All art is exploitation.

All I owe the world is my art.

My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.

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...

The people who loved me when I was seven years old love my books, and the people who didn't like me when I was seven years old don't like my books.

I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has changed.

White Americans have a short memory.

My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.

I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.

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.

My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.

My name is Sherman J. Alexie Jr., and I am an insomniac.

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...

In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite...

You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.

There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.

I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.

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