+ A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Tony Hillerman, Bags, Stuff, Writing, 0 - Tony Hillerman Author
+ The first Chapter Law is, “Don’t spend much time on it. You’re going to have to rewrite it.” Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Tony Hillerman, Law, Writing, 0 - Tony Hillerman Author
+ I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Tony Hillerman, Mind, Stories, 0 - Tony Hillerman Author
+ I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Tony Hillerman, Book, Reading, Writing, 0 - Tony Hillerman Author
+ Women are extremely important shapers of my own life. Feraz Zeid, October 15, 2023December 26, 2023, Tony Hillerman, Important, 0 - Tony Hillerman Author
+ I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it. Feraz Zeid, August 20, 2023December 12, 2023, Tony Hillerman, Book, Human, 0 - Tony Hillerman Author
+ Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture. Feraz Zeid, October 13, 2023December 26, 2023, Tony Hillerman, Blood, Culture, Indian, 0 - Tony Hillerman Author
+ An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Tony Hillerman, Landscape, Smell, Wind, 0 - Tony Hillerman Author
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. - William Ralph Inge Theologian and Anglican priest · England
To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified. - Maxwell Perkins Editor · USA