John Sandford quotes

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?' (John Sandford)

Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.

John Sandford

You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.

John Sandford

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 pop.

John Sandford

It's interesting how people are sensitive to language and how it works.

John Sandford

I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.

John Sandford

Most people like a little sex in their novels.

John Sandford

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 finished, and, honest to God, I can't do that. I really do need the help of, you know, other people working with me.

John Sandford

Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.

John Sandford

Things fall apart and happen out of stupidity and carelessness.

John Sandford

I'm not saying that photographers are dumber than other people, but they are the folks who walk around with brilliant white lights in nighttime riots. (John Sandford)

The difference is this: If you write a good book, it'll get published. If you have a great screenplay, there is no guarantee.

John Sandford

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

There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.

John Sandford

These characters are not spontaneous creations. They are engineered down to the last nut and bolt.

John Sandford

I really do need the help of other people working with me.

John Sandford

If you actually hang out in the countryside, which I did, it's actually quite peaceful.

John Sandford

John Sandford

Occupation: American Novelist
Born: February 23, 1944
Quotes count: 17

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