I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and social positions, and minorities. I think that the political power of, let's say, the average Indian man and a white woman are pretty equal.

Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.

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

I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it.

My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.

All I owe the world is my art.

We only know how to lose and be lost.