Don't live up to your stereotypes.

Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.

I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.

You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.

I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.

My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.