I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it.

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

Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.

Because I'm an American, I know there's all sorts of international folks who would gladly kidnap and behead me.

I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.

I drew because words were too unpredictable. (5)

she braided my sister's hair with hands that smelled deep roots buried in the earth she told me the old stories how time never mattered when she died they gave me her clock