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Tony Hillerman
 
Date of birth: 27 May 1925
Date of death: Alive (or unknown)
Country Of Origin: America
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" Although I wasn't able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans and others 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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" 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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" An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place. "

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" Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture. "

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" Having grown up as a boy in oil patch country in Oklahoma, I was fairly familiar with the pigs who used to clean pipelines. "

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" 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. "

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" How can you stop writing? "

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" 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. "

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

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

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" I am still in the throes of trying to learn. I have just re-read some early Hemingway, Raymond Chandler, and Graham Greene. I'm also very fond of Stephen Ambrose. "

Tony Hillerman
" I dislike efforts to Balkanize America by hyphenating our population into ethnic groups. "

Tony Hillerman
" I dislike our government's efforts to persuade us we are terrorized by September 11. The people I talk to are shocked, angry, and uneasy about the incompetence demonstrated by the CIA, FBI, etc. The terrorists win only if they spook us. "

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" I have always felt that making the reader aware of the vast emptiness of our high desert is important to making the story work. "

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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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