American - Novelist | February 23, 1944 -
A lot of journalists are talented enough to write a mystery novel, and I would say that most of the top-end mystery writers actually started out as reporters. But there is more to it than just the writing; there's a learning process, and most journalists aren't willing to do it.
John Sandford
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I'm just trying to normalize my life and get ready for the last 20 years or whatever I've got. It's a lot to take care of.
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Virgil Flowers fishes in the St. Croix where I fish for muskies near my house.
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I'm somewhat depressive.
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I fear becoming formulaic. Some of my books are.
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There are two worldviews in thriller writing: the paranoid view, like Chuck Logan's, that everything is inside a large clockwork. I like those books; they're intricate and thought out, but my view is that everything is chaotic and stupid. Chaos reigns, and civilized people do what they can to hold it back.
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People ought to be slapped up side of the head, not always get what they expect. That's why sometimes the bad guy gets away.
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A lot of cops in fiction are very depressive and are kind of downbeat, and they've got all kinds of existential angst that they're dealing with.
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A lot of my friends were retiring from the newspaper business, and the newspaper pensions are not enormous.
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I really do need the help of other people working with me.
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If you actually hang out in the countryside, which I did, it's actually quite peaceful.
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Working for the 'Miami Herald' in 1972, I covered street action for both the Republican and Democratic national conventions in Miami and saw probably the most violent conventions ever - more violent than even 1968 in Chicago.
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