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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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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There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.
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These characters are not spontaneous creations. They are engineered down to the last nut and bolt.
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It's interesting how people are sensitive to language and how it works.
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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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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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I fear becoming formulaic. Some of my books are.
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Most people like a little sex in their novels.
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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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I was a newspaper editor in the Army, and I know something about the Army PR culture.
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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've always thought of myself as a journalist; that was what I did.
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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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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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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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You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.
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I'm somewhat depressive.
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I have a problem with the way the media deals with a lot of law enforcement issues.
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Before the Internet became so powerful, I toured extensively. With the rise of the Internet, touring apparently has become less important.
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I really do need the help of other people working with me.
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I spend a lot of time wandering around the countryside just looking at people, seeing how everything fits together.