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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 teenager knew who the bootleggers were.
Tony Hillerman
Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture.
Tony Hillerman
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
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 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
From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.
Tony Hillerman
IF you are not for yourself, who will be for you? If you are only for yourself, what are you? If not now, when?
Tony Hillerman
I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.
Tony Hillerman
You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart.
Tony Hillerman
I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.
Tony Hillerman
I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.
Tony Hillerman
How can you stop writing?
Tony Hillerman
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
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
