41 Quotes by Tony Hillerman

I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.

Women are extremely important shapers of my own life.

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?

Although I wasnt 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.

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.

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

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

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