Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture.
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I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.
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Women are extremely important shapers of my own life.
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I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.
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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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An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.
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You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart.
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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.
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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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