All Tony Hillerman Quotes
- The first Chapter Law is, "Don't spend much time on it. You're going to have to rewrite it." Chapter
- 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… Art
- An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place. Around Smell
- A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff. Bag
- 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… Able
- 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… Bootleggers
- I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading. Anyone
- 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… Bend
- Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture. Blood
- Women are extremely important shapers of my own life. Extremely
- 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,… Attitude
- How can you stop writing? Funny
- I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind. Always Try
- I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it. Book
- You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart. Audience
- 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… Bench
- 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… Affects
- From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it. From
- IF you are not for yourself, who will be for you? If you are only for yourself, what are you? If not now, when? Funny