If we were asked and we could do it, we usually did.

I think we had more of a fear about losing the farm during the tough times. We wanted to keep it so bad.

It's very natural for us to be involved with the community. We love people and our community.

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing - not the 'what happens' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

Any fiction writer who assumes that a character is typical no doubt runs the risk of stumbling into cliche and stereotype.

I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.