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> [You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-hillerman/you-write-for-two-people-yourself-and-your-audience-who-are-usually/)

[Tony Hillerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-hillerman/)

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## More by Tony Hillerman

> [Women are extremely important shapers of my own life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-hillerman/women-are-extremely-important-shapers-of-my-own-life/)

[Tony Hillerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-hillerman/)

> [“But if I'd known I was going to live so damn long, I'd have taken better care of myself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-hillerman/but-if-i-d-known-i-was-going-to-live-so-damn-long-i-d-have-taken/)

[Tony Hillerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-hillerman/)

> [I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-hillerman/i-try-to-make-my-books-reflect-humanity-as-i-see-it/)

[Tony Hillerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-hillerman/)

> [A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-hillerman/a-writer-is-like-a-bag-lady-going-through-life-with-a-sack-and-a/)

[Tony Hillerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-hillerman/)

> [The first Chapter Law is, "Don't spend much time on it. You're going to have to rewrite it."](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-hillerman/the-first-chapter-law-is-don-t-spend-much-time-on-it-you-re-going-to/)

[Tony Hillerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-hillerman/)

> [Everything is connected. The wing of the corn beetle affects the direction of the wind, the way the sand drifts, the way the light…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-hillerman/everything-is-connected-the-wing-of-the-corn-beetle-affects-the/)

[Tony Hillerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-hillerman/)

> [An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-hillerman/an-author-knows-his-landscape-best-he-can-stand-around-smell-the-wind/)

[Tony Hillerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-hillerman/)

> [I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-hillerman/i-always-try-to-make-the-setting-fit-the-story-i-have-in-mind/)

[Tony Hillerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-hillerman/)

> [“Someone had been digging. Someone had been looting. A pot hunter. A Thief of Time.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-hillerman/someone-had-been-digging-someone-had-been-looting-a-pot-hunter-a/)

[Tony Hillerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-hillerman/)

> [Although I wasn't able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-hillerman/although-i-wasn-t-able-to-get-a-visa-for-vietnam-i-was-able-to-talk/)

[Tony Hillerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-hillerman/)

> [Thoughts, and words that spring from them, bend the individual's reality. To speak of death is to invite it. To think of sorrow is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-hillerman/thoughts-and-words-that-spring-from-them-bend-the-individual-s/)

[Tony Hillerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-hillerman/)

> [Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-hillerman/being-indian-is-not-blood-as-much-as-it-is-culture/)

[Tony Hillerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-hillerman/)

> [“really think I could learn anything about that diamond”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-hillerman/really-think-i-could-learn-anything-about-that-diamond/)

[Tony Hillerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-hillerman/)

> [The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-hillerman/the-essays-in-the-great-taos-bank-robbery-were-my-project-to-win-a/)

[Tony Hillerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-hillerman/)

> [“I heard the Watersprinkler playing his flute.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-hillerman/i-heard-the-watersprinkler-playing-his-flute/)

[Tony Hillerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-hillerman/)

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