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Tony Hillerman [1925-0] American

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Anthony Grove "Tony" Hillerman was an award-winning American author of detective novels and non-fiction works best known for his Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels. Several of his works have been adapted as big-screen and television movies.

Attitude, Graduation

Quote	Tags	Rank
An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.		101
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.		102
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.	Graduation	103
How can you stop writing?		104
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.		105
Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture.		106
You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart.		107
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.	Attitude	108
I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.		109
I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.		110
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.		111
I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.		112
Women are extremely important shapers of my own life.		113

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