Leslie Marmon Silko quotes

I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world. (Leslie Marmon Silko)
Time limits are fictional. Losing all sense of time is actually the way to reality. We use clocks and calendars for convenience sake, not because that kind of time is real. View quote
Leslie Marmon Silko
To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me. View quote
Leslie Marmon Silko
Writing can't change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul. View quote
Leslie Marmon Silko
But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together. View quote
Leslie Marmon Silko
You don't have anything if you don't have the stories. View quote
Leslie Marmon Silko
When someone dies, you don't get over it by forgetting; you get over it by remembering, and you are aware that no person is ever truly lost or gone once they have been in our life and loved us, as we have loved them. View quote
Leslie Marmon Silko
I will tell you something about stories... They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death. View quote
Leslie Marmon Silko