My parents banned nothing, though the Christian fundamentalists in my tribe held book-and-record burnings every now and again. So, yes, fundamentalist assholes can also be brown-skinned.

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.

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

I thought I’d been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing Y.A.

All art is exploitation.

I think I was born with a suitcase.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?