Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture.
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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
I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.
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
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
An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.
Tony Hillerman
Women are extremely important shapers of my own life.
Tony Hillerman
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