Tony Hillerman(1925-2008)

A publisher who turned his manuscript down actually said to him, "Your stories would be a lot more interesting if you'd take out all this American Indian stuff."

[1996, interview on PBS] I am 71, have now-and-then rheumatic arthritis but now very badly, have in-remission cancer, have had a minor heart attack, have one mediocre eye, one tricky ankle and two unreliable knees due to being blown up in WWII.