An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.

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

The first Chapter Law is, "Don't spend much time on it. You're going to have to rewrite it."

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

From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.

Women are extremely important shapers of my own life.

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.