Top 35 Hillerman Quotes
#1. Well you know I've been fan of Tony Hillerman's books for years.
Keith Carradine
#2. It makes my skin crawl when people tell me, 'Don't worry, you'll get another series.' Their expectations have little to do with mine.
Stephanie Zimbalist
#4. Thoughts, and words that spring from them, bend the individual's reality. To speak of death is to invite it. To think of sorrow is to produce it.
Tony Hillerman
#5. 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
#6. The first Chapter Law is, "Don't spend much time on it. You're going to have to rewrite it."
Tony Hillerman
#7. Women are extremely important shapers of my own life.
Tony Hillerman
#8. IF you are not for yourself, who will be for you? If you are only for yourself, what are you? If not now, when?
Tony Hillerman
#11. They're here!" he cried, slamming the door and scuttling to the window.
Amber frowned. "The vampires?"
Glen looked back at her, real fear on his face. "Your parents.
Derek Landy
#12. Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were.
Tony Hillerman
#13. I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.
Tony Hillerman
#14. He seemed to be having a staring contest with one of the candles
Kim Harrington
#15. 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.
Tony Hillerman
#16. A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff.
Tony Hillerman
#17. Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture.
Tony Hillerman
#18. It ain't always rocket science, sometimes a door is just a door.
James Rollins
#19. All along, I was less concerned about walking a path of integrity and more caught up in a compass calibrated by greed. And with a compass such as this, how is it that I'm having a hard time understanding why I am where I am?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#20. You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart.
Tony Hillerman
#21. From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.
Tony Hillerman
#22. A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.
Hesiod
#23. 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.
Tony Hillerman
#24. The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
Ben Jonson
#25. The flowers are Nature's jewels, with whose wealth she decks her summer beauty.
George Croly
#26. 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
#27. Gossip is essentially storytelling: storytelling about people whom we know.
Mona Simpson
#28. Ly-di-ah! I sit beneath your window, laaaass, singing 'cause I loooove your a - "
"For the love of St. Francis of Assisi, someone call a vet. There is an injured animal screaming in pain outside," Charlotte interrupted the flow of music in ill-humor.
Michelle M. Pillow
#29. For a few seconds I thought about my little brothers who loved connecting things with rope. I wondered if I'd ever see them again and a torpedo of sadness struck me and moved straight trough my body.
Miriam Toews
#30. An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.
Tony Hillerman
#31. 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
#32. I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.
Tony Hillerman
#33. I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.
Tony Hillerman
#34. We were on stage. We were supposed to speak our dialogues. But at times, a smile says more than words ever can!
Avijeet Das
#35. Ena wore black because she knew it could stir panic in the hearts of mankind. Black gave the impression of power and authority. Could anyone imagine how Ena could strike terror in the hearts of any person if she was wearing... pink, for instance? Or sunshiny yellow?
Terry Spear
