You have to believe in yourself and only trust your own vision and instincts. If Id listened to what other people thought about my work in the first ….

At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre before ultimately deciding to g….

No land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth..

When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were n….

Each time a high-wage job is lost, a family is turned upside down. And that affects the communities where they live..

When I finish a book, I get extremely restless; I have to aggressively find ways to occupy myself; going off into the woods alone, doing things that ….

My first published novel, American Rust, took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that..

She wondered how people would remember her. She had not made enough to spread her wealth around like Carnegie, to erase any sins that had attached to….

We moved to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1979, when I was five. The funny thing is that, even though Baltimore had one of the top murder rates in the coun….

Give a small number of people the power to enrich themselves beyond everyone's wildest dreams, a philosophical rationale to explain all the damage th….

The entire history of humanity is marked by a single inexorable movement - from animal instinct toward rational thought, from inborn behavior toward ….

When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails..

If no one heard your sounds then you did not really make them..

You ought to be able to grow up in a place and not have to get the hell out of it when you turn eighteen..

Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better..