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"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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"I like home. It's warm and there are books."
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"Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go."
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"Laura Ingalls Wilder said, "Home is the nicest place there is."
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"No guest rooms. I shake my head resolutely. "I want to be in a room room. A lived-in room."
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"My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home."
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"My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world."
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"One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is."
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"We are at war with enemies that still have the intent to do further damage to Americans at home and abroad."
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"Sometimes to be at home is like a nightmare by Stephen King."
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"It was a show that you played at home and you're saying to the contestant do this and do that. When you at home are involved in yelling at the screen, then you know you've got an audience."
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"I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it."
Books
"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."
Time
"You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart."
People
"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
"I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading."
Reading
"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."
War
"Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture."
Being
"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
"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."
Being
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