I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers. — John Sandford Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7 — John Sandford Copy Share
“A certain percentage of technological societies severely damage their own planets before they become mature enough to understand the damage they are doing. In… — John Sandford Copy Share
“truth, that he wasn’t involved in the murder, but Virgil wasn’t yet ready to label him nope. After a moment, Virgil said, “I’m going… — John Sandford Copy Share
“The anger that was coursing through America deeply worried her. Although she was too young to remember the beginnings of the civil rights, anti–Vietnam… — John Sandford Copy Share
“Space junk had made low Earth orbit space almost unusable by the mid-thirties, and it had taken a decade of concerted and costly international… — John Sandford Copy Share
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… — John Sandford Copy Share
“LIKE ANY GOOD MINNESOTAN, Lucas rarely missed the TV weather before going to bed.” — John Sandford Copy Share
“Oh yeah, I heard you got born again.' she said. 'Which you needed since they fucked up the first time.” — John Sandford Copy Share
“It’s the way of the world, man. There are the worker bees, and the manager bees. The worker bees take care of the work,… — John Sandford Copy Share
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… — John Sandford Copy Share
