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• The first Chapter Law is, "Don't spend much time on it. You're going to have to rewrite it."
• The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I…
• An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.
• A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff.
• Although I wasnt able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a…
• Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On…
• I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.
• Thoughts, and words that spring from them, bend the individual's reality. To speak of death is to invite it. To think of…
• Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture.
• Women are extremely important shapers of my own life.
• I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In…
• How can you stop writing?

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