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" Fiction should be an ethically safe space, free of fancy ideas. It should be dedicated modestly to relationships or escapism or the needs of luscious voyeurs. "

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" If I can't find a way to love it, I let it go. Kind of the opposite of the popular homily. "

" Names and other proper nouns shouldn't distract from the language. "

" Economic and health statistics, as well as police-violence statistics, shed light on the pressures on American Indian communities and individuals: Indian youths have the highest suicide rate of any United States ethnic group. "

" Work-wise, I try not to repeat myself too often. And I have to love whatever I'm doing. "

" I think the best fiction is a form of psychological suspense, even though I don't really write in that idiom. "

" Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that. "

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" If Oak Flat were a Christian holy site or, for that matter, Jewish or Muslim, no senator who wished to remain in office would dare to sneak a backdoor deal for its destruction into a spending bill - no matter what mining-company profits or jobs might result. But this is Indian religion. "

" Trophy hunters are not Everyman. These world-traveling endangered-species shooters are a far cry from the hunters who spend weekends in the American outback near their suburban or rural homes. "

" People who are obsessed amuse me. "

" Snark describes a cynical position, and I'm not interested in that. "

" I advise, if you're stymied by a passage or paragraph or plot point - whether it's for an assignment from the outside world or one that comes only from within - get up from wherever you're sitting, walk outdoors, and do nothing but look at the sky for five minutes. Just stare at that thing. Then execute a small bow and go back in. "

" No one bought my screenplays. "

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Bought

Screenplays

" Most of my books have something to do with L.A. "

" I have a king bed, one of those memory-foam mattresses that doesn't jiggle as you get in or out. Even if you cleaved it down the middle with a pickax, the thing wouldn't tremble. It's practically earthquake-proof. "

" Indeed, the hype around 'Watchmen' is its curse. If you want to enjoy the comic for what it is, ignore the attributions of literariness and the novelistic pretensions with which some critics have imbued it. This isn't high culture, and it doesn't pretend to be. It's good, juicy pulp fiction with a little nuclear apocalypse thrown in. "

" I came to understand that a German nudist, in 1984, loved little more than to work on his or her tan. "

" I had hoped that going to Hiroshima would reveal something small, gritty, and precise to countervail the epic quality of historical accounts. "

" The grizzly bears that live in and around Yellowstone make up almost half the population in the lower 48 states, and now those bears are at risk. "

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" The comic novels I did when I was in my 20s had a harder edge - less sympathy for people. Or a sympathy that was harder to detect: Characters' foibles and obsessive bents were unrelenting, like caricatures. "

" I wanted to write about this tropical honeymoon in part because I had the most drastically terrible honeymoon. "

" More than two million years ago, mammoths and Asian elephants took different evolutionary paths - and around the same time, according to DNA research, so did their lumbering relatives in Africa. "

" In 1805, the explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, making their way across the West, were warned by American Indian tribes of grizzly bears' awesome strength. "

" It's a friendly act to write a lighthearted book. "

" I've always been interested in obsessive, insane people. "

" Oil drilling and coal mining are killing endangered wildlife, polluting rivers, creating smog over wilderness areas and blocking wildlife corridors in America's most treasured landscapes. "

" If you're going to do a thing, do it fully so that no writing you give the world misrepresents you - so that nothing you put out there is like a sad regift you couldn't throw away and had to find a place for. "

" At 16, I was more resilient and easygoing than I am now. "

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" After numerous generations of people dedicated to killing wolves on the North American continent, one generation devoted itself to letting wolves live. "