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Tony Hillerman
American
Author
About the author
An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.
Tony Hillerman,
American
Author
#Wind
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 newspaper editor and went back to college.
Tony Hillerman,
American
Author
#Being
#English
#College
#Project
I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.
Tony Hillerman,
American
Author
#Books
#Humanity
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 and saw a few elderly Navajos sitting on a bench. I felt right at home.
Tony Hillerman,
American
Author
#Right
#People
#Home
#Old
#Post
#Elderly
I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.
Tony Hillerman,
American
Author
#Will
#Years
#Old
#Writing
#Reading
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, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.
Tony Hillerman,
American
Author
#Time
#Respect
#Mind
#Attitude
I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.
Tony Hillerman,
American
Author
#Mind
Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture.
Tony Hillerman,
American
Author
#Being
#Culture
#Blood
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 the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like.
Tony Hillerman,
American
Author
#Talk
#Time
#Sense
#Prison
#Vietnam
#Veterans
Women are extremely important shapers of my own life.
Tony Hillerman,
American
Author
#Life
#Women
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 teenager knew who the bootleggers were.
Tony Hillerman,
American
Author
#War
#Liquor
#states
#Drugs
You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart.
Tony Hillerman,
American
Author
#People
How can you stop writing?
Tony Hillerman,
American
Author
#Writing