Writers are always diverse on the inside.

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.

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 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

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

Leave Your Comfort Zone, If You Want To Accomplish Something.

As long as you are waiting for something to make you happy — happiness will never come.

An individual being will go through lives and events in cycles on earth until it learns those specific lessons that it had come to learn in each incarnation.

I love newspapers. I've worked on newspapers, all my life. I've always loved it.

When you please your mother by doing something, it gives you confidence that you can please other people.

I don't like yelling insults at someone who's never done anything to me.

You gotta know someone cares about you, or you just give up.

I believe in libertarian options because they allow an interesting management of the capital and are based on co-operation, reciprocity, contract, federation.

As women, we need to embrace our bodies and be confident with who we are.