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Favorite Tony Hillerman Quotes

1. "Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture." ~ Tony Hillerman
2. "Women are extremely important shapers of my own life." ~ Tony Hillerman
3. "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
4. "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
5. "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
6. "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
7. "An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place." ~ Tony Hillerman
8. "How can you stop writing?" ~ Tony Hillerman
9. "I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind." ~ Tony Hillerman
10. "I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading." ~ Tony Hillerman
11. "I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it." ~ Tony Hillerman
12. "You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart." ~ Tony Hillerman
13. "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
14. "From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it." ~ Tony Hillerman

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The course led them to the moment when, in answer to the highest of one's values, one's spirit makes one's body become the tribute, recasting it--as proof, as sanction, as reward--into a single sensation of such intensity of joy that no other sanction of one's existence is necessary."
Author: Ayn Rand

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