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John Sandford Quotes

American - Novelist | February 23, 1944 -

There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.

Marriage Romantic Interesting Meeting

These characters are not spontaneous creations. They are engineered down to the last nut and bolt.

Down Spontaneous Last Bolt Nut

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.

You Look Go Kind Out Things

You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.

Life You Feeling Get Set Somehow

If you do outline, you have to be aware of the problems that that kind of thing can cause.

Problems You Kind Aware Cause Thing

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.

People Brooklyn Go Want Where Stay

People in California don't live in a place so much as they do a condition.

Live People Place California Much

I have a problem with the way the media deals with a lot of law enforcement issues.

Law Law Enforcement Problem Media

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.

Evil Kind Crime Never Falling Order

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.

Evil Control Devil Kind Crime Sense

Women just make interesting characters, especially when you're working against cliches.

Women Interesting You Against Just

The difference is this: If you write a good book, it'll get published. If you have a great screenplay, there is no guarantee.

Good Great Book You Write Get

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