When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make… — John Sandford Copy Share Image
Well, I am becoming doddering and old but I have - I'm writing two books a year now. It's like 220,000 words… — John Sandford Copy Share Image
Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations. — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“LIKE ANY GOOD MINNESOTAN, Lucas rarely missed the TV weather before going to bed.” — John Sandford Copy Share Image
