There are people who are always, I think, going to remain people of the book, to use another author's title, but people of the book, who really must be around.

I am at the bookstore a lot, but let my friends, the professional Birchbark Books staff, handle the day in and day out.

I have always kept notebooks and I go back to them over and over. They are my compost pile of ideas.

The world tips away when we look into our children's faces.

What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.

It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.

Looking at the shape of the world, I see how we're in a time where women are the subject of hatred, fear, and we have to fight that all the time. I feel that there are fights we take for granted. When I look at the world, I see that women are subject to cruelty. And that's why the global gag rule means so much to me, that the United States wouldn't stand up for the rights and health of women.