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N. Scott Momaday

N. Scott Momaday

American Author

Born: Feb 27, 1934

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Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition. N. Scott Momaday

Stronger Ways Indians Some Marvelous Written Tradition Than Oral Storytellers

I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable. N. Scott Momaday

Isolation Our Way Possession Entirely Given Take Look None Am Brain Blood Apart Interested Land Us Unimaginable Landscape Lives

Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition. N. Scott Momaday

Writing Matter Temperament Somehow Write Writers Tradition Blood Choice

The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another. N. Scott Momaday

Life Spiritual Reality World Every Think Way Evident Indian One-Way Developed Highly Another Affects Very Person

I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages. N. Scott Momaday

Good Knowledge World Living Virtue Several Indian Pretty Pretty Good Cultures Being Different Different Cultures Languages Exposed Reservations

I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud. N. Scott Momaday

Me Soil Oklahoma Makes Proud Roots Deep

Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done. N. Scott Momaday

Best Balance Sometimes Think Humorous Strike Kind Poem Between Very Done Which Hard Serious Acute

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