Gerald Vizenor

It's so difficult to write in motion and get rid of the past tense, and also to create a sense of impermanence. ”

Naanabozho was the first tribal trickster on the earth. ”

The great liberation of imaginative writing is that you're not held back by the facts. ”

There are 13 stories in 'The Fencepost Chronicles' about corrupt tribal leaders, trouble on the reserve, survival schemes, and communal drinking. ”

There is a sense of motion and a concise, immediate image in haikus and Anishinaabe dream songs. ”

W. P. Kinsella, who was born on a farm near Edmunton, Alberta, has earned wide recognition for his wild imagination and rash humor as a writer. ”

The idea of victimage is a dreadful thing, a product of a safe middle-class perspective. What people who are not safe develop is a tragic wisdom, a wisdom that embraces contradiction and seeks a sense of balance rather than going to extremes. ”

I use not casual phrases but imagistic phrases that create a rhythm of natural presence. ”

Even the earliest cave paintings in France and Spain had natural motion. ”

Confucius would give his seat to an old woman. Communist cadres, on the other hand, took the best seats and called it a cultural revolution. ”