155 Quotes by John Sandford

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.

Women just make interesting characters, especially when you're working against cliches.

The difference is this: If you write a good book, it'll get published. If you have a great screenplay, there is no guarantee.

A lot of journalists are talented enough to write a mystery novel, and I would say that most of the top-end mystery writers actually started out as reporters. But there is more to it than just the writing; there's a learning process, and most journalists aren't willing to do it.

I'm an outdoors kind of guy.

I'm somewhat depressive.

I fear becoming formulaic. Some of my books are.

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.

I really do need the help of other people working with me.