American - Novelist | February 23, 1944 -
Most people in protest mobs are pretty sincere and don't want to fight cops or break things.
John Sandford
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I'm not saying that photographers are dumber than other people, but they are the folks who walk around with brilliant white lights in nighttime riots.
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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.
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I've always thought of myself as a journalist; that was what I did.
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My kids, who are grown now and living in L.A., are used to me packing up and taking off to somewhere weird.
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I was a newspaper editor in the Army, and I know something about the Army PR culture.
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When you're writing two books a year, you really need some time off and don't want to use that down time for touring. I do like talking with readers, though; they can tell you important stuff.
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Before the Internet became so powerful, I toured extensively. With the rise of the Internet, touring apparently has become less important.
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If readers tell you that stretches of dialogue or narrative were too long, that they couldn't tell who was talking, that's something that can be fixed.
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As a journalist, I interviewed people, and you begin to feel different rhythms in speech, and you can use those things to help carve out a character.
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It's interesting how people are sensitive to language and how it works.
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