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.

my mind ran over scenes of Shesheeb seducing Margaret until I was a wagon dragged by the runaway horses of my jealousy.

I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land.

To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life.

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.

Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.

I truly think that you can't go and stalk your material, you have to leave the door open and whatever chooses you, chooses you. You can't go and wrestle it to the ground.