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 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.

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

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

You may not like what I see but I don't like what you do.

A possibility thinker notices a problem just long enough to get excited about the solution.

If you're short, don't wear extremely high heels. After a certain age, you shouldn't wear little girls' clothes. That's going against your nature.

If you can't afford a half hour three or four times a week taking care of the most priceless possession, your body, you've got to be sick. You're stupid.

It's fun to toy around with press stuff a little bit, because in many ways it's not a real world.

It's such an extraordinary time to be alive that you just don't want to miss it. I mean, it's a really neat historical period.

People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.

There's so much visible stuff around now, we're tempted to forget that it's usually the invisible that matters most.

The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.