John Sandford Quotes
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A lot of cops in fiction are very depressive and are kind of downbeat, and they've got all kinds of existential angst that they're dealing with.
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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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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.
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Working for the 'Miami Herald' in 1972, I covered street action for both the Republican and Democratic national conventions in Miami and saw probably the most violent conventions ever - more violent than even 1968 in Chicago.
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I fear becoming formulaic. Some of my books are.
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A lot of journalists are talented enough to write a mystery novel, and I would say that most of the top-end mystery writers actually started out as reporters. But there is more to it than just the writing; there's a learning process, and most journalists aren't willing to do it.
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If you actually hang out in the countryside, which I did, it's actually quite peaceful.
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Most people like a little sex in their novels.
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Most people in protest mobs are pretty sincere and don't want to fight cops or break things.
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You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.
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There are two worldviews in thriller writing: the paranoid view, like Chuck Logan's, that everything is inside a large clockwork. I like those books; they're intricate and thought out, but my view is that everything is chaotic and stupid. Chaos reigns, and civilized people do what they can to hold it back.
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These characters are not spontaneous creations. They are engineered down to the last nut and bolt.
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I'm just trying to normalize my life and get ready for the last 20 years or whatever I've got. It's a lot to take care of.
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It's interesting how people are sensitive to language and how it works.
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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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The difference is this: If you write a good book, it'll get published. If you have a great screenplay, there is no guarantee.
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When I was reporting crime... I never had the sense of clockwork conspiracies or some kind of imposing order of evil. What I sensed was things just sort of falling apart.
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Books set in Brooklyn and L.A. are often about people who are rootless, who want to go somewhere else. In the Midwest, though, the stories are about people who want to stay where they are - who like where they are.
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I'm somewhat depressive.
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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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I spend a lot of time wandering around the countryside just looking at people, seeing how everything fits together.
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I really do need the help of other people working with me.
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I've always had a fascination with the technical and small-scale aspects of life - the national media seem to have more interest in the sweeping political views.
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My kids, who are grown now and living in L.A., are used to me packing up and taking off to somewhere weird.