John Sandford
John Sandford
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth23 February 1944
CountryUnited States of America
nut
These characters are not spontaneous creations. They are engineered down to the last nut and bolt.
eaten looked marshall
Marshall didn't look anything like Lennon; he looked like something that would have eaten Lennon,
apart calculated clockwork control crime driven evil falling happen imposing order reporting represent sort stupidity
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. That's my sense of how crime works, that it's not any kind of calculated evil driven by the devil, but just control disintegrating. Things fall apart and happen out of stupidity and carelessness. Davenport does represent order in this.
ugly crime theft
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.
flower rain dark
Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7
horny safe dawn
I'm so horny the crack of dawn isn't safe.
nuts bunch grapes
Nuts don’t come in bunches. Only grapes do.
cities strange countryside
I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.
sex people littles
Most people like a little sex in their novels.
writing imagination people
Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.
couple interesting firsts
There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.
book looks kind
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.
feelings ifs
You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.
book writing years
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.