"Everything I did in the book that’s related to modern technology and contemporary behavior had to do with revisiting …"

"The initial impulse was just liking it in other books. … Also, coming from a community that felt voiceless in the lar…"

"I wanted to write characters that felt true and real, and there’s a lot of harrowing detail about the lives of Native…"

"In Stein’s Everybody’s Autobiography, she talks about how someone was asking her what it’s like to come back to her c…"

"We know the sound of the freeway better than we do rivers, the howl of distant trains better than wolf howls. We know…"

"They tore unborn babies out of bellies, took what we were intended to be, our children before they were children, bab…"

"Our heads are on flags, jerseys, and coins. Our heads were on the penny first, of course, the Indian cent, and then o…"

"You were white, you were brown, you were red, you were dust. You were both and neither. When you took baths, you’d st…"

"There are some extraordinary people working right now and there are scenes in literary fiction being published that I…"

"Would you end war? Create great Peace."