John Sandford Quotes

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• Nuts don’t come in bunches. Only grapes do.
• I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.
• Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.
• Most people like a little sex in their novels.
• Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.
• There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.
• 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?
• 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…
• You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.
• 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…
• 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…
• Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7
• I'm so horny the crack of dawn isn't safe.
• These characters are not spontaneous creations. They are engineered down to the last nut and bolt.

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