“Crow was getting a contact high from the dope; either that, or from the jambalaya.” — John Sandford Copy Share Image
“Flowers wouldn’t be buttering their toast after the next election, but Pweters might be.” — John Sandford Election 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 Clerks Copy Share Image
“Why bother to go through life if you can't do interesting shit?” — John Sandford Bother Copy Share Image
“Oh yeah, I heard you got born again.' she said. 'Which you needed since they fucked up the first time.” — John Sandford First time Copy Share Image
“This boy’s been married so often he’s got rice burns on his face.” — John Sandford Burns Copy Share Image
“Time passes, but sometimes it beats the shit out of you as it goes.” — John Sandford Time passes Copy Share Image
These characters are not spontaneous creations. They are engineered down to the last nut and bolt. — John Sandford Bolt Copy Share Image
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 Building Copy Share Image
“I'm a picture of abject fear. If I had my choice between flying to El Paso or getting a colonoscopy, I'd have… — John Sandford El paso Copy Share Image
“So she made no secret about being gay?" "Why should she?" the little old lady asked. "Nobody would care but a bunch… — John Sandford Old lady 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… — John Sandford Book 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… — John Sandford Space Copy Share Image
“Cops and schoolteachers,” Sloan said with satisfaction. “A cop and schoolteacher bar. The teachers drink like fish. The cops hit on the… — John Sandford Happy family Copy Share Image
“Atheists, he came to believe, generally worked in man-made cubes, with blackboards and computers and fast food. They didn’t believe in wonders… — John Sandford Computers Copy Share Image
“I'll bring pajamas " she said. "Yeah? You have any idea how old I am?" "Not nearly as old as you're gonna… — John Sandford Total-human-holocaust Copy Share Image
“phone, twisted it out of her hand, and slammed it on the hook. “I cry good, don’t I?” she asked with a… — John Sandford Big words Copy Share Image
“Telephones. Everybody was leaning on telephones.” Lucas took a phone from his pocket and held it up, then looked at it, at… — John Sandford Credit card 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 Becoming Copy Share Image
“I used to be a Catholic, and when I first started police work, I worried about that. I saw a lot of… — John Sandford Bits and pieces Copy Share Image
“Cinnamon Girl" wasn't right for this day, for this time, for what was about to happen. If he were to have music,… — John Sandford Music Copy Share Image
“he thought a bit about God, and whether He might be some kind of universal digital computer, subject to the occasional bug… — John Sandford Cybersecurity 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… — John Sandford Biological warfare Copy Share Image
“The day after the assignation with Barstad, the low stacked-heels of Charlotte Neumann, an ordained Episcopalian priest, author of New Art Modalities:… — John Sandford Total-human-holocaust Copy Share Image
“Her Pan-Cake makeup was cracking like a dried-out Dakota lake bed.” — John Sandford Copy Share Image
“David Birkmann? I can’t believe it. It’s like saying a duck did it.” — John Sandford David Copy Share Image
“LIKE ANY GOOD MINNESOTAN, Lucas rarely missed the TV weather before going to bed.” — John Sandford Lucas Copy Share Image
“Flowers said, “I got two bottles of water in the car.” “Get them. And get your gun,” Lucas said. “The gun? You… — John Sandford Change Copy Share Image