American - Author | May 27, 1925 - October 26, 2008
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
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I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.
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How can you stop writing?
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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.
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Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture.
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You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart.
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An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.
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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.
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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.
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I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.
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I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.
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Women are extremely important shapers of my own life.
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