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I don't make outlines or plans because whenever I do, they turn out to be useless. It is as if I am compelled to violate the scope of any outline or plan; it is as if the writing does not want me to know what is about

I don't make outlines or plans because whenever I do, they turn out to be useless. It is as if I am compelled to violate the scope of any outline or plan; it is as if the writing does not want me to know what is about to happen.

Leslie Marmon Silko
Writing, Want, Doe

For a long time he had been white smoke. He did not realize that until he left the hospital, because white smoke had no consciousness of itself. It faded into the white world of their bed sheets and walls; it was sucked away by the words of doctors who tried to talk to the invisible scattered smoke... They saw his outline but they did not realize it was hollow inside.

Leslie Marmon Silko
Wall, Doctors, White
Leslie Marmon Silko (1977). “Ceremony”, New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books

the snow ... came in thick tufts like new wool - washed before the weaver spins it.

Leslie Marmon Silko
Snow, Sorrow, Wool

Moonflowers blossom in the sand hills before dawn, just as I followed him.

Leslie Marmon Silko
Dawn, Hills, Sand
Leslie Marmon Silko, Melody Graulich (1993). “Yellow Woman”, p.15, Rutgers University Press

Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time.

Leslie Marmon Silko
Long, Alive, Long Time
Leslie Marmon Silko (1977). “Ceremony”, New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books

Fortunately, her year of graduate classes prepared her for obnoxious conduct.

Leslie Marmon Silko
Years, Class, Graduates
Leslie Marmon Silko (2013). “Gardens in the Dunes: A Novel”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

The truth of course was otherwise, but Lecha had never felt she owed anyone the truth, unless it was truth about their own lives, and then they had to pay her to tell them.

Leslie Marmon Silko
Pay, Courses, Felt

Janice Gould is one of our best poets. The music of her poetry will delight you, and her gentle courageous accounts of tribal, family, and personal history make this book unforgettable. Doubters and Dreamers is a master-piece.

Leslie Marmon Silko
Book, Dreamer, Pieces

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