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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.
— Sherman Alexie
Tags: writing, nobody, live, work

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What kind of life can you have in a house without books?
— Sherman Alexie Flight
Tags: reading, necessity, life, inspiration, dullness, boredom, books
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.
— Sherman Alexie
Tags: writing, enjoy, know, you
White Americans have a short memory.
— Sherman Alexie
Tags: short, white, memory
My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.
— Sherman Alexie
Tags: writing, your, mirror, you
You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.
— Sherman Alexie
Tags: rest, never, culture, you
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