John Sandford Quotes

• 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 Sandford

  Character, People, Building

  "Hunting 'Prey' On The Streets Of The Twin Cities". Interview with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. July 31, 2009.

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• Nuts don’t come in bunches. Only grapes do.

  John Sandford

  Nuts, Grapes, Bunch

  John Sandford (2012). “Shock Wave”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  John Sandford

  Book, Looks, Kind

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• I'm so horny the crack of dawn isn't safe.

  John Sandford

  Horny, Dawn, Cracks

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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.

  John Sandford

  Nice, Writing, Looks

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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 Sandford

  Men, Phones, Pigs

  John Sandford (2015). “Gathering Prey: Prey”, p.53, Penguin

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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.

  John Sandford

  Cities, Strange, Countryside

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• As an individual with my own hurts, I go into the Garden (Gethsemane) as often as I need to. There I identify with the pain in the other, with my part in that pain, my part in tempting someone to wound me. I experience the other's pain, and God's pain, and am devastated - because their pain becomes my own. Feeling such anguish, I can forgive, or deeply repent, either for myself or on behalf of the other.

  John Sandford

  Hurt, Pain, Garden

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• Catholics don't scream about Jesus, they scream about the bishop.

  John Sandford

  Jesus, Catholic, Bishops

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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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 Sandford

  Ugly, Crime, Theft

  "In 'Mad River,' A Friendly Cop Tackles Rural Crime". Interview with Linda Wertheimer, krvs.org. September 23, 2012.

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• Most people like a little sex in their novels.

  John Sandford

  Sex, People, Littles

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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.

  John Sandford

  Book, Writing, Years

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• There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.

  John Sandford

  Couple, Interesting, Firsts

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• Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.

  John Sandford

  Writing, People, Imagination

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• You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.

  John Sandford

  Feelings, Ifs

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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

  John Sandford

  Rain, Flower, Dark

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