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John Sandford
American Novelist
Born: Feb 23, 1944
Books Down Kind People Writing You
Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach
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. John Sandford
People Somewhere Else Books Though Brooklyn Stay About Somewhere Else Like Go Often Where Want Stories Midwest Who Set
I spend a lot of time wandering around the countryside just looking at people, seeing how everything fits together. John Sandford
Time Together People Looking Spend Everything Seeing Countryside Around How Lot Fits Just Wandering Just Looking
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
You Writing Down Nice Find Something Write Outside Look Piece Go Very Just
Most people like a little sex in their novels. John Sandford
People Sex Like Most Little Novels
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
God Me You People Writing Words Old Finished Year Other Books Something Like Know Well Becoming Am Really Working Help Now Two Need Honest
People in California don't live in a place so much as they do a condition. John Sandford
People Live California Condition Place Much
Women just make interesting characters, especially when you're working against cliches. John Sandford
You Women Characters Make Cliches Just Against Interesting Interesting Characters Working
The difference is this: If you write a good book, it'll get published. If you have a great screenplay, there is no guarantee. John Sandford
Good Great You Book No Guarantee Write Get Difference Screenplay Good Book Published Guarantee
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. John Sandford
Life Care My Life Whatever Take Take Care Ready Got Years Lot Get Trying Just Last
I once paddled a canoe the length of the Mississippi River all the way from Itasca to New Orleans. John Sandford
Once Way River New Mississippi Mississippi River New Orleans Canoe Length Orleans
Virgil Flowers fishes in the St. Croix where I fish for muskies near my house. John Sandford
House Fish Fishes Where Near Flowers
I'm somewhat depressive. John Sandford
Somewhat Depressive
I fear becoming formulaic. Some of my books are. John Sandford
Fear Books Some Becoming
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. John Sandford
People Writing Thought Stupid Back Chaos Chaotic Chuck Everything Books Those Intricate Out Inside Paranoid Thriller Civilized Like Clockwork Hold View Large Reigns Two
A lot of my friends were retiring from the newspaper business, and the newspaper pensions are not enormous. John Sandford
Business Enormous Pensions Retiring Were Lot Friends Newspaper
I really do need the help of other people working with me. John Sandford
Me People Other Really Working Help Need
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. John Sandford
National Action Saw More Both Most Democratic Covered Chicago Miami Than Conventions Republican Working Even Ever Street Violent
Most people in protest mobs are pretty sincere and don't want to fight cops or break things. John Sandford
Fight People Pretty Sincere Most Protest Mobs Want Break Things Cops
I've always thought of myself as a journalist; that was what I did. John Sandford
Myself Thought Journalist Always Did
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. John Sandford
Life Political National Seem More Had Always National Media Political Views Interest Sweeping Aspects Views Fascination Media Technical
My kids, who are grown now and living in L.A., are used to me packing up and taking off to somewhere weird. John Sandford
Me Somewhere Living Kids Taking Weird Off Up Packing Used Who Grown Now
I was a newspaper editor in the Army, and I know something about the Army PR culture. John Sandford
Army Culture About Something Know Editor Newspaper
Before the Internet became so powerful, I toured extensively. With the rise of the Internet, touring apparently has become less important. John Sandford
Internet Important Become Before Rise Toured Touring Powerful Became Less Apparently
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. John Sandford
You Long Too Tell Something Readers Talking Narrative Dialogue Were Fixed Who

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