Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor..

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained..

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything..

If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong..

I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture..

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing..

Can you hear the dreams crackling like a campfire? Can you hear the dreams sweeping through the pine trees and tipis? Can you hear the dreams laughin….

When anybody, no matter how old they are, loses a parent, I think it hurts the same as if you were only five years old, you know? I think all of us a….

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads..

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community..

I'm quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird.

Last September 16th, I was walking in downtown Seattle when this pick-up truck pulls up in front of me. Guy leans out the window and yells, "Go back ….

Don't live up to your stereotypes..

If a parent doesn't want his/her child to read a book then there is always an alternative text to read. But the book banners want to control what eve….

I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. That's right, I am a book kisser. Maybe that's kin….

At least half the country thinks the mascot issue is insignificant. But I think it's indicative of the ways in which Indians have no cultural power. ….

These are things you should learn. Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you; your future is a skeleton walking one step in front of you. M….

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing..

"I used to think the world was broken down by tribes," I said. "By black and white. By Indian and white. But I know that isn't true. The world is onl….

I write books for teenagers because I vividly remember what it felt like to be a teen facing everyday and epic dangers. I don't write to protect them….