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"Women are extremely important shapers of my own life."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place."
"I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading."
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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."
"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."
"Although I wasn't able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like."
"You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart."
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