I often focus more on language than on the conveying of information.

I want children who feel embarrassed because they speak Spanish to realize that there are places where the beautiful Spanish they speak is an asset.

Writers are always diverse on the inside.

It is always a tense moment for an author to see how someone hasillustrated his or her story, because the author has lived for so long with these characters, sometimes for years.

I have a deep attachment to the natural world. It's a major influence on my writing, and as I look out over the wonderful snow-covered Santa Fe hills, I'm grateful for every day that I live here.

I did realize, as do you, how blessed I was to know bookjoy, the private pleasure of savoring text.

I write because I am curious. I am curious about me.

Your Texas is no different than my Texas.

When I'm writing poetry, 99.9% of my writing begins in English. I spent most of my life in English, although I am bilingual.

I became a good writer when I saw the age of forty coming at me

The feminine section of the proletarian army is of particularly great significance... the success of a revolution depends on the extent to which women take part in it.

Mistakes from our collective past are like any other: they require intervention--a remedy--to correct. They don't erase themselves over time.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Community in the American university is paradoxically a private and individual decision.

to travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other

If we want users to like our software, we should design it to behave like a likeable person.

Every time I slip into the ocean, it's like going home.

The danger in writing about a world you don't know very well is that you can get lost in it, and sometimes I'll end up with a hundred pages I don't know what to do with.

There have been times when I have failed. But there have never been times when I thought I would fail

There are many people who live with terrorism every day.