I know what I write about seems exotic to a lot of people, but not for me. I pulled up to an old trading post and saw a few elderly Navajos sitting on a bench. I felt right at home.

A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff.

I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.

I know what I write about seems exotic to a lot of people, but not for me. I pulled up to an old trading post and saw a few elderly Navajos sitting on a bench. I felt right at home.

You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart.

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

How can you stop writing?