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 More Quotes by John Sandford More Quotes From John Sandford 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 building character people Nuts don’t come in bunches. Only grapes do. John Sandford grapes nuts bunch Women had been on the verge of taking over the world-the Western world, anyway. Then some sexist pig in Silicon Valley invented the cell phone and women took a sidetrack on which all four billion of them would soon be happily talking to each other twenty-four hours a day, getting nothing else done, and Men Would Be Back. John Sandford phones pigs men As an individual with my own hurts, I go into the Garden (Gethsemane) as often as I need to. There I identify with the pain in the other, with my part in that pain, my part in tempting someone to wound me. I experience the other's pain, and God's pain, and am devastated - because their pain becomes my own. Feeling such anguish, I can forgive, or deeply repent, either for myself or on behalf of the other. John Sandford pain garden hurt 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 theft ugly crime 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 nice writing looks I'm so horny the crack of dawn isn't safe. John Sandford horny cracks dawn Catholics don't scream about Jesus, they scream about the bishop. John Sandford bishops catholic jesus Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations. John Sandford imagination writing people Most people like a little sex in their novels. John Sandford littles sex people You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life. John Sandford ifs feelings 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 writing book years I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers. John Sandford countryside strange cities Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7 John Sandford flower dark rain There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting. John Sandford couple interesting firsts 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. John Sandford stay go want people Things fall apart and happen out of stupidity and carelessness. John Sandford happen things stupidity fall I spend a lot of time wandering around the countryside just looking at people, seeing how everything fits together. John Sandford looking together time people Combat stress isn't the only problem for soldiers isolated in Iraq - there are family issues, re-integration issues when soldiers go home on leave, loneliness. John Sandford family stress loneliness home These characters are not spontaneous creations. They are engineered down to the last nut and bolt. John Sandford nut down last spontaneous
