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"The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind."
Mind,
"You see things You keep quiet about them. You understand."
"What are you addicted to: being thankful for your blessings or moaning about your problems?"
"The mind is a miraculous mirror through which we see the world, but it can also see from within."
Explore more quotes by Tony Hillerman
"An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place."
"I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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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