He Had A Thousand-year-old Stare.

I Make Very Involved Drawings, Even Little Structures, And Try Using Design To Figure Out The Rhythm Of A Plot. If There Are Several Narrators Then A Clue Has To Pop Up In The First Line. There Have To Be Certain Grammatical Clues, Or Distinctive Names.

Sometimes A Person's Monstrosity Seems Superhuman.

I Prefer To Have Some Beliefs That Don't Make Logical Sense.

[on Her And Husband Michael Dorris:] We Both Have Title Collections. I Think A Title Is Like A Magnet. It Begins To Draw These Scraps Of Experience Or Conversation Or Memory To It. Eventually, It Collects A Book.

When Every Inch Of The World Is Known, Sleep May Be The Only Wilderness That We Have Left.