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Tony Hillerman Quotes: An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.
         

An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.


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From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.



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The first Chapter Law is, "Don't spend much time on it. You're going to have to rewrite it."



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A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff.



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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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IF you are not for yourself, who will be for you? If you are only for yourself, what are you? If not now, when?


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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.



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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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If there's something as good as [him] in my life, I'm going to pay for it.



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