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
book giving missing
The highest praise a writer can give another is to say he wishes he had written his book. I wish I had written Forty Words for Sorrow. Giles Blunt has a tremendous talent. If you miss Forty Words for Sorrow, you'll miss one of best novels of 2001.
sticks bags stuff
A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff.
ifs
IF you are not for yourself, who will be for you? If you are only for yourself, what are you? If not now, when?
writing law firsts
The first Chapter Law is, "Don't spend much time on it. You're going to have to rewrite it."
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.
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.
smell wind landscape
An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.