Tony Hillerman
Tony Hillerman
Tony Hillerman was an award-winning American author of detective novels and non-fiction works best known for his Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels. Several of his works have been adapted as big-screen and television movies...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 May 1925
CitySacred Heart, OK
CountryUnited States of America
smell wind landscape
An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.
rain somewhere-else order
From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.
writing law firsts
The first Chapter Law is, "Don't spend much time on it. You're going to have to rewrite it."
sticks bags stuff
A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff.
mind trying stories
I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.
writing
How can you stop writing?
attitude two mind
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.
vietnam might able
Although I wasnt 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.
graduation art winning
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.
eye reality men
Everything is connected. The wing of the corn beetle affects the direction of the wind, the way the sand drifts, the way the light reflects into the eye of man beholding his reality. All is part of totality, and in this totality man finds his hozro, his way of walking in harmony, with beauty all around him.
although boat might prison swift talk time tropical veterans vietnamese visa visited
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.