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 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.

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

The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.

The bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act; he hears their voices even before he knows them.

I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all.

I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.

People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes!

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

The church is the gospel made visible.

We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

I'll bring my tax returns; you bring yours. I'll meet you anytime anywhere.