I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.

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.

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

From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.

The first Chapter Law is, "Don't spend much time on it. You're going to have to rewrite it."

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

A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff.

I know what I write about seems exotic to a lot of people, but not for me. I pulled up to an old trading post and saw a few elderly Navajos sitting on a bench. I felt right at home.

IF you are not for yourself, who will be for you? If you are only for yourself, what are you? If not now, when?

Thoughts, and words that spring from them, bend the individual's reality. To speak of death is to invite it. To think of sorrow is to produce it.

I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.

Now, in the Kingdom of School, to be asked into another child's room is like being asked inside their heart.

An American Family Sampler is a book any reader will find insightful, thoroughly researched, and fun to read. Robert Frump, author, award winning journalist, business leader

Would I ever find the perfect note to fill the music sheet that I had?

Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her

The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.

I've never been damaged or hurt by press. It's just that I think it's unfair to use your name in media.

The Pawns are the soul of the game

We lost a young man’s life and it begins to represent so many things.

There's a small island, inhabited in the South Pacific that I will try to swim to.

I had Flipped. -Bryce Loski