Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture. "
Tony Hillerman
Much
Indian
Culture
Related Quotes:
" I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind. "
Tony Hillerman
Story
Try
Mind
" 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
Mind
Attitude
Time
" Women are extremely important shapers of my own life. "
Tony Hillerman
Women
Important
Own
" You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart. "
Tony Hillerman
Better
Smart
You
" I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading. "
Tony Hillerman
Long
Old
Reading
" 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
Me
Right
People
" 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
Time
Place
Boat
" An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place. "
Tony Hillerman
Best
Landscape
Stand
" I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it. "
Tony Hillerman
See
Try
Humanity
" How can you stop writing? "
Tony Hillerman
How
Writing
Stop
" 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
Liquor
Last
Where