It’s so funny — because I’m a public Indian figure, people assume I have all these magical Indian powers, like I’m some sort of healer or shaman. That also extends to just being a writer in general — I think people assume that just because somebody’s good with metaphors, he’s a better human being. It’s not true. I’m just better with metaphors than 99 percent of the population, and that doesn’t make me magical, it just makes me fairly smart.
via The beautiful brain of Sherman Alexie: War Dances wins 2010 Pen/Faulkner Award.