Quotes About Tony Hillerman

I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.

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.

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.

I never start one of these books in which they appear without being motivated by a desire to give those who read them at least some insight into the culture of a people who deserve to be much better understood. —Tony Hillerman

Mr. Leaphorn," the man said. "Papa said you coming.

I hear you're a medicine man. I heard you are a singer of the Blessing Way. Is that right?" Chee looked slightly stubborn. "Yes sir," he said. "I would like to ask you to sing one for me," Leaphorn said.

witches in there to scrutinize, there's plenty of ruins to keep