Tony Hillerman Quotes

You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart. - Tony Hillerman

Women are extremely important shapers of my own life. - 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

I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it. - 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 am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading. - Tony Hillerman

I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind. - Tony Hillerman

How can you stop writing? - Tony Hillerman

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

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