John Sandford quotes
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“When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?”
-- John SandfordSource : "Hunting 'Prey' On The Streets Of The Twin Cities". Interview with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. July 31, 2009.
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“They don't have a lot of crime in the countryside other than theft. But every once in a while, things turn ugly, and when they turn ugly, they turn very ugly.”
-- John SandfordSource : "In 'Mad River,' A Friendly Cop Tackles Rural Crime". Interview with Linda Wertheimer, krvs.org. September 23, 2012.
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“Well, I am becoming doddering and old but I have - I'm writing two books a year now. It's like 220,000 words or something like finished, and, honest to God, I can't do that. I really do need the help of, you know, other people working with me.”
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“You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.”
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“With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop.”
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“There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.”
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“Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.”
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“Most people like a little sex in their novels.”
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“Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.”
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“I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.”
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“Nuts don’t come in bunches. Only grapes do.”
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“I'm so ***** the crack of dawn isn't safe.”
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“Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7”
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“Women had been on the verge of taking over the world-the Western world, anyway. Then some sexist pig in Silicon Valley invented the cell phone and women took a sidetrack on which all four billion of them would soon be happily talking to each other twenty-four hours a day, getting nothing else done, and Men Would Be Back.”
-- John SandfordSource : John Sandford (2015). “Gathering Prey: Prey”, p.53, Penguin
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