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Tony Hillerman

(1925–2008) Writer United States

26 quotes in 140 categories

Tony Hillerman was a writer from the United States, best known for Dance Hall of the Dead CD Low Price.

Quick Facts About Tony Hillerman

Born: May 27, 1925
Died: October 26, 2008
Nationality: United States
Profession: Writer
Notable works: Dance Hall of the Dead CD Low Price

About Tony Hillerman

Anthony Grove Hillerman was an American author of detective novels and nonfiction works, best known for his mystery novels featuring the fictional Navajo Nation Police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee. Several of his works have been adapted for film and television, including the AMC series Dark Winds.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Purple Heart Grand Prix de Littérature Policière Nero Award Agatha Award for Best Non-Fiction Anthony Award Anthony Award for Best Novel Edgar Awards Silver Star

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Bronze Star Medal Macavity Awards The Grand Master Q131138036

Quotes by Tony Hillerman

Women are extremely important shapers of my own life.

Important

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“But if I'd known I was going to live so damn long, I'd have taken better care of myself.”

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I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.

Book

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A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff.

Bags

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The first Chapter Law is, "Don't spend much time on it. You're going to have to rewrite it."

Chapters

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Everything is connected. The wing of the corn beetle affects the direction of the wind, the way the sand drifts, the way…

Connected

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An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.

Books

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I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.

Fit

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“Someone had been digging. Someone had been looting. A pot hunter. A Thief of Time.”

Time

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Although I wasn't able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a…

Able

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Thoughts, and words that spring from them, bend the individual's reality. To speak of death is to invite it. To think of…

Death

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Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture.

Blood

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“really think I could learn anything about that diamond”

Education

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The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I…

Art

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“I heard the Watersprinkler playing his flute.”

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“You notice anything about the skeletons?” Leaphorn was squatting now in the shallow trench, examining bones. “Somebody seemed to be interested in…

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From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.

Order

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How can you stop writing?

Writing

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Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On…

Drug

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The highest praise a writer can give another is to say he wishes he had written his book. I wish I had…

Blunt

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“Mr. Leaphorn,” the man said. “Papa said you coming.”

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“I hear you’re a medicine man. I heard you are a singer of the Blessing Way. Is that right?” Chee looked slightly…

Medicine

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I know what I write about seems exotic to a lot of people, but not for me. I pulled up to an…

Benches

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I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In…

Attitude

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I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.

Book

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