John Sandford famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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?
-- John Sandford

#Character #People #Building
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.
-- John Sandford

#Ugly #Crime #Theft
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.
-- John Sandford

#Book #Writing #Years
You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.
-- John Sandford

#Feelings
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.
-- John Sandford

#Book #Looks #Kind
There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.
-- John Sandford

#Couple #Interesting #Firsts
Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.
-- John Sandford

#Writing #People #Imagination
Most people like a little sex in their novels.
-- John Sandford

#Sex #People #Littles
Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.
-- John Sandford

#Nice #Writing #Looks
I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.
-- John Sandford

#Cities #Strange #Countryside
Nuts donâ€™t come in bunches. Only grapes do.
-- John Sandford

#Nuts #Grapes #Bunch
I'm so ***** the crack of dawn isn't safe.
-- John Sandford

#Horny #Dawn #Cracks
Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7
-- John Sandford

#Rain #Flower #Dark
Women had been on the verge of taking over the world-the Western world, anyway. Then some sexist pig in Silicon Valley invented the cell phone and women took a sidetrack on which all four billion of them would soon be happily talking to each other twenty-four hours a day, getting nothing else done, and Men Would Be Back.
-- John Sandford

#Men #Phones #Pigs

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