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Tony Hillerman

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Tony Hillerman
Tony Hillerman

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"How can you stop writing?"


Listening Woman
People of Darkness
The Dark Wind
Dance Hall of the Dead
The Wailing Wind
A Thief of Time
Talking God
Sacred Clowns
The Blessing Way: A Leaphorn & Chee Novel
The First Eagle
Hunting Badger
The Fallen Man
Skinwalkers
Coyote Waits
Skeleton Man
The Shape Shifter
The Ghostway
The Sinister Pig

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Reading brings us unknown friends”

Honore de Balzac

Honore de Balzac

“When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.”

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

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