I would much rather be respected by the Indian community through my writing than to have my books reviewed in the New York Times. - Wendy Rose

(Could you describe your writing process?) Well, I explained it one time, on radio, as the sensation of being sick in your stomach, in that you suddenly have to throw up, suddenly, you have to vomit. There is no way you can stop it. It has to happen. It's a bodily process in which the material is expelling itself from your body. That's what it feels like to me in a mental or emotional way. Suddenly it's there and it has to be expelled. It's going to come out whether I want it to or not. If I don't have something to write on, it comes out of my mouth. It's got to come out one way or another.

I think it's impossible to be governed with any sense of integrity when you don't recognize each other and have no obligation to each other.

We are parts of the earth that walk around and have individual consciousness for awhile and then go back.