However they both see it differently. Sherman Alexie was surprised that he became a writer. “Despite all the books I read, I'm still surprised that I became a writer. I was going to become a pediatrician. These days I write novels, short stories and poems (Alexie 498).” When he was younger, Indian children were expected to be stupid in school. He overcame all this and today visits schools and teaches creative writing to Indian children. “I visit schools and teach creative writing to Indian children. In all my years in the reservation school system, I was never taught to write poetry, short stories, or novels. I was certainly never taught that Indians wrote poems, short stories and novels. Writing was something beyond the Indians. I can't recall a single time a guest teacher visited the reservation (Alexie 498).” While Sherman Alexie uses his writing skills to help others, Welty uses his skills to help her feel her writing. “Since I first read and then started reading on my own, there has never been a line read that I haven't heard. As my eyes followed the sentence, a voice told me silently. It is not my mother's voice, or the voice or any other person that I can identify, certainly not mine (Welty 495).” He also mentions it at the end of his story: “My own words, when I'm working on a story, I hear them too as they go, in the same voice I hear when I read in books. When I write and the sound