Sherman Alexie World Quotations

Do you understand how amazing it is to hear that from an adult? Do you know how amazing it is to hear that from anybody? It's one of the simplest sentences in the world, just four words, but they're the four hugest words in the world when they're put together. You can do it.

When you're depressed, you know, it's like the world has ended. Even getting out of bed takes the most massive amount of effort. But when you're manic, oh, it's so addicting. You know, I have finished novels in two weeks in manic stages.

If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.

The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.

I know a lot about being white - because I have to, I live in the white world. A white person doesn't live in the Indian world. I have to be white every day.

It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.

The world is divided by two different tribes. The people who are assholes and the people who are not.

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.

In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.

Drinking would shut down my seeing and my hearing and my feeling," she used to say. "Why would I want to be in the world if I couldn't touch the world with all of my senses intact?

All I owe the world is my art.