N. Scott Momaday Quotes

N. Scott Momaday — American Author born on February 27, 1934,

Navarre Scott Momaday — known as N. Scott Momaday — is a Native American author of Kiowa descent. His work House Made of Dawn was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969. Momaday received the National Medal of Arts in 2007 for his work that celebrated and preserved Native American oral and art tradition. He holds 20 honorary degrees from colleges and universities, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.. (wikipedia)

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

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.

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

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

I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.

N. Scott Momaday Quotes

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