I couldn't bear to have people mispronounce my name. But the person I was was this person who was called Chloe.

The theme you choose may change or simply elude you, but being your own story means you can always choose the tone. It also means that you can invent the language to say who are you and what you mean.

Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.

It would be ten years before they saw each other again, and their meeting would be thick with birds.

I write the way women have babies. You don't know it's going to be like that. If you did, there's no way you would go through with it.

I don't think I knew any of my father's friends - male friends - by their real names. I remember them only by their nicknames.