An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.
More Quotes from Tony Hillerman:
I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.Tony Hillerman
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
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
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
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Place QuotesIt is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
Buffalo Bill
The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
Ibrahim Babangida