theparisreview:“It didn’t occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that...

theparisreview:

“It didn’t occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to. And even once I realized that they were being read, I still wrote as if I were writing in secret. That’s how one has to write anyway—in secret.”

—Louise Erdrich