Blunt Quote by Tony Hillerman

Women are extremely important shapers of my own life.

— Tony Hillerman

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

— Tony Hillerman

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

— Tony Hillerman

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

— Tony Hillerman

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

— 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…

— Tony Hillerman

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

— Tony Hillerman

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

— Tony Hillerman

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Tony Hillerman

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

— Tony Hillerman