The real place of writing is to make change in the world, and it's a very powerful medium. - Linda Hogan

I see my everyday life in a historical context. We are living in the midst of history; it's important that somebody keeps records.

First books, for many people, seem to be sort of autobiographical incursions into who they are, and what it means to be who they are.

I see so many disappointing environmental writers who are not writing about the environment at all. They’re writing about themselves in the environment, and they often don’t understand the world they’re writing about. There are clearly writers who are more concerned with traveling around and checking everything out than they are with long-term survival of the habitats that they’re working in. In some ways, the writing I do is politically centered because it is about a world view that can’t be separated from the political