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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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.
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How can you stop writing?
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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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An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.
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