Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can … - Sherman Alexie

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I sometimes have the sense that I live my life as a writer with my nose pressed against the wide, shiny plate glass window of the"mainstream" culture. The world seems full of straight, large-circulation, slick periodicals which wouldn't think of reviewing my book and bookstores which will never order it.

Sherman Alexie

Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a book rightfully be called a book if it never gets read? If a tree falls in a forest and gets pulped to make paper for a book that never gets read, but there's nobody there to read it, does it make a sound?

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I write books for teenagers because I vividly remember what it felt like to be a teen facing everyday and epic dangers. I don't write to protect them. It's far too late for that. I write to give them weapons-in the form of words and ideas-that will help them fight their monsters. I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.

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Since Jesus was human then he most assuredly farted and burped. And if God did create us in God's image then God must fart and burp as well.

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If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.

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Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

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My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.

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