I don't know how many people there are with a million dollars who are inclined to give it to a writers' retreat.

I didn't know how many people knew who Ferdinand was.

Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.

I've got to be out doing a million things. That's how I find stories. That's how I get the relationships and get the projects that I get with the writers, the directors.

I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer.

The first thing my writing ever earned me wasn't an advance on a book; it wasn't a fee for an article or anything like that. It was, in fact, a residency at Hedgebrook Farm.