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"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."
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"I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made."
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"We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases."
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"What makes your life rainy or sunny is your attitude towards life, not the attitude of life towards you!"
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"Feeling bored is a childish attitude.You wouldn't feel so if you don't relyon somebody to change your feeling."
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"Cynicism is one of the terrible obstacles to progress."
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"Sometimes you just have to have a can-do fuck you attitude."
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"It is important to take the seriousness out of things that do not deserve it. Take the seriousness out of it, and the thing loses its power."
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"Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them."
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"Guard yourself with a positive attitude, conviction, hope and fulfillment of your heart's desire."
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"If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first."
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"Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were."
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"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."
Attitude
"You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart."
People
"I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind."
Mind
"I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it."
Books
"Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture."
Being
"An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place."
Art
"How can you stop writing?"
Writing
"Women are extremely important shapers of my own life."
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."
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