The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.

There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for
life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises....
If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest,
not what pays

Birth, life, and death -- each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time.