American - Novelist | February 23, 1944 -
I spend a lot of time wandering around the countryside just looking at people, seeing how everything fits together.
John Sandford
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Things fall apart and happen out of stupidity and carelessness.
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I'm an outdoors kind of guy.
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I once paddled a canoe the length of the Mississippi River all the way from Itasca to New Orleans.
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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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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?'
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Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.
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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'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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Most people like a little sex in their novels.
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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.
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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.
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