Tony Hillerman's Landscape Quotes

“One of the many facets of Navajo culture that appeals to me is the lack of value attached to vengeance. This ‘eye for an eye’ notion pervading white culture is looked upon by the Diné as a mental illness.”
― Anne Hillerman, Tony Hillerman's Landscape: On the Road with Chee and Leaphorn

“The editor was Harper & Row’s legendary mystery expert, Joan Kahn. He’d sent her a letter asking her opinion after his agent had advised him to abandon thoughts of writing fiction or, at the very least, to come up with a better novel “getting rid of the Indian stuff.”
― Anne Hillerman, Tony Hillerman's Landscape: On the Road with Chee and Leaphorn