John Sandford
John Sandford
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth23 February 1944
CountryUnited States of America
nut
These characters are not spontaneous creations. They are engineered down to the last nut and bolt.
nuts bunch grapes
Nuts don’t come in bunches. Only grapes do.
eaten looked marshall
Marshall didn't look anything like Lennon; he looked like something that would have eaten Lennon,
apart calculated clockwork control crime driven evil falling happen imposing order reporting represent sort stupidity
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. 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. Things fall apart and happen out of stupidity and carelessness. Davenport does represent order in this.
ugly crime theft
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.
flower rain dark
Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7
horny safe dawn
I'm so horny the crack of dawn isn't safe.
cities strange countryside
I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.
writing imagination people
Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.
couple interesting firsts
There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.
feelings ifs
You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.
hurt pain garden
As an individual with my own hurts, I go into the Garden (Gethsemane) as often as I need to. There I identify with the pain in the other, with my part in that pain, my part in tempting someone to wound me. I experience the other's pain, and God's pain, and am devastated - because their pain becomes my own. Feeling such anguish, I can forgive, or deeply repent, either for myself or on behalf of the other.
jesus catholic scream
Catholics don't scream about Jesus, they scream about the bishop.
men phones pigs
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.