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John Sandford has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Nuts don’t come in bunches. Only grapes do.
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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.
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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.
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Most people like a little sex in their novels.
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Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.
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There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.
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When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make…
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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…
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You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.
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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…
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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,…
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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
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