John Sandford Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
Since my father was a superstar, without me knowing it, I became a child star, as my father's entire fan base liked me, and I can't thank my father enough for this, as it was so effortless.
-
My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles.
-
I was obsessed with Hollywood from the time I was a kid. I always knew I wanted to live in Los Angeles.
-
Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.
-
I'm not the only one in the studio a lot of times, so I have my boys in there and they'll tell me and give me their suggestions and what they think.
-
By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression.
-
I'm a New Yorker; I've paid my dues.
-
I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.
-
I've never been to the Himalayas, and I'm not really interested in them. I'm more interested in a dirty old quarry in Lancashire, and by god, they can be dirty.
-
One of the problems with the Internet is that a lot of times it is inaccurate.
-
Nobody is ordinary if you know where to look.
-
It's very difficult to escape your background. You know, I don't think it's necessary to even try to escape it. More and more, I start to think that it's necessary to see exactly what it is that you inherited on both ends of the stick: your timidity, your courage, your self-deceit, and your honesty - and all the rest of it.
-
The very man who has argued you down will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said.
-
Lord, what am I, that, with unceasing care,Thou didst seek after me, - that Thou didst wait,Wet with unhealthy dews, before my gate,And pass the gloomy nights of winter there?
-
Man wants little, nor that little long.
-
Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it-whole-heartedly-and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings. sic
-
As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and, try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our own day.
-
We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is - which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and rights who will grow up to be an adult.
-
When people are thriving, the city is thriving.
-
If Allah created you for this world, He would have created you without death.
-
I don't get up and look at e-mail. I don't even know my e-mail address. I needed one just to have a computer put on. But I never, ever even thought of going to it. It's just not what I'm about. I just don't want to waste my life with it. It's just too much; I think people are just a little too absorbed in all of that.
-
A lot of people when I walk into meetings are like, 'Come on, let's talk more about 'X-Men.' What's it like to be Havok?' It certainly has been opening a lot of doors.
-
The sheep-people don't think for themselves anymore. You can say anything and it's the gospel truth and they don't have to go research it or anything, and they believe everything the news tells them. People don't go and do their own investigations if it's relationships or politics or anything.
-
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.
