Quotes by Joseph Bruchac

Joseph Bruchac

A journal is a very personal thing. As far as possible, to write this sort of book you need to know and feel your character as a person and then put yourself into that person’s mind, place and time. Trying to stay in that person, place and time is a challenge when surrounded by this very different world of the 21st century.

Book

Character

Writing

A story is a burden which must be carried with as much care as we carry a sleeping child

Children

Sleep

Stories

Another of the hard things about being in a war, grandchildren, is that although there are times of quiet when the fighting has stopped, you know you will soon be fighting again. Those quiet times give you the chance to think about what has happened. Some of it you would rather not think about, as you remember the pain and the sorrow. You also have time to worry about what will happen when you go into battle again.

Fear

Pain

War

As long as we can remember them, our families will always be with us.

Long

Our Family

Remember

Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes events?

Events

Fate

Shapes

Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.

Doubt

Guilt

Needs

If it wasn’t for good,” my mother says, “we human beings would have been wiped out a long time ago. Either the monsters would have gotten us or we would have killed each other off with greed and jealousy and anger. So we have to believe in good. We have to look for the good in ourselves.

Believe

Long

Mother

It is important to understand that there are many different ways of seeing the world and expressing the wisdom of Native belief…No one voice speaks for all voices.

Expression

Native American

Wisdom

Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin’ shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.

Enemy

Pretending

Soldier

Knowledge is easy to come by. Understanding what you know takes much longer.

Easy

Understanding

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Believe

Book

Character

Children

Commitment

Culture

Doubt

Easy

Enemy

Events

Expression

Fate

Fear

Grandchildren

Grandparent

Guilt

Horse

Importance

Long

Make You Think

Mean

Men

Mother

Native American

Nature

Needs

Our Family

Pain

Paper

Past

People

Pretending

Real

Remember

Sacred Places

Shapes

Sleep

Soldier

Song

Stories

Strong

Strong Words

Teacher

Thinking

Understanding

Waiting

War

White

Wisdom

Writing

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Quotes by Joseph Bruchac

Joseph Bruchac

A story is a burden which must be carried with as much care as we carry a sleeping child

As long as we can remember them, our families will always be with us.

Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes events?

Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.

If it wasn’t for good,” my mother says, “we human beings would have been wiped out a long time ago. Either the monsters would have gotten us or we would have killed each other off with greed and jealousy and anger. So we have to believe in good. We have to look for the good in ourselves.

It is important to understand that there are many different ways of seeing the world and expressing the wisdom of Native belief…No one voice speaks for all voices.

Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin’ shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.

Knowledge is easy to come by. Understanding what you know takes much longer.

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