155 Quotes by John Sandford

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.

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.

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.

A lot of my friends were retiring from the newspaper business, and the newspaper pensions are not enormous.

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?'

If you do outline, you have to be aware of the problems that that kind of thing can cause.

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.

People in California don't live in a place so much as they do a condition.

I have a problem with the way the media deals with a lot of law enforcement issues.