Tony Hillerman Quotes
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The first Chapter Law is, "Don't spend much time on it. You're going to have to rewrite it."
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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 quit being a…
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An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.
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A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff.
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Although I wasnt able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the…
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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 Drugs, where every…
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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.
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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 sorrow is to…
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Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture.
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Women are extremely important shapers of my own life.
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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 Thief of Time,…
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How can you stop writing?
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I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.
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I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.
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You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart.
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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 old trading post…
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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 the light reflects…
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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.
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IF you are not for yourself, who will be for you? If you are only for yourself, what are you? If not now, when?
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