However, they both see things in a different way. Sherman Alexie was surprised to become a writer. “Despite all the books I have read, I am still surprised that I became a writer. I was going to become a pediatrician. Today, I write novels, short stories and poems (Alexie 498). When he was younger, Indian children were expected to be stupid in school. He overcame that and today he 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 reserve school system, I was never taught to write poetry, short stories, or novels. I was certainly never taught that Indians wrote poetry, short stories and novels. Writing was something beyond the Indians. I don't remember a single time when a visiting professor visited the reserve (Alexie 498). While Sherman Alexie uses her writing skills to help others, Welty uses her skills to help her hear what she writes. “Since I was first read to and then started reading to myself, there has never been a single line read that I didn't hear. As my eyes followed the sentence, a voice silently said it to me. It is not my mother's voice, nor the voice or anyone I can identify, and certainly not mine (Welty 495). She also mentions it at the end of her story: “My own words, when I work on a story, I also hear them as I go along, in the same voice that I hear when I read in books. When I write and the sound