The other night at a neighborhood restaurant the waiter, after mentioning he had read my books, said about himself, "I'm white, I'm nothing.” But that was what I wanted, you see, growing up in America-the freedom of being nothing, the confidence of it, the arrogance. And I achieved it.
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To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me.
Leslie Marmon Silko
If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.
Ernest Hemingway
