Women are extremely important shapers of my own life.

IF you are not for yourself, who will be for you? If you are only for yourself, what are you? If not now, when?

I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.

I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.

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.

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