It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to. And even once I realized that they were being read, I still wrote as if I were writing in secret. That's how one has to write anyway--in secret.

I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I've always switched points of view in my books. I'm a Gemini.

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

It was just enough to sit there without words.

You never know where you're going to find the same thoughts in another brain, but when it happens you know it right off, just like you were connected by a small electrical wire that suddenly glows red hot and sparks.

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time.