“In fact it's quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it.”

“Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.”