155 Quotes by John Sandford

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.

I'm not saying that photographers are dumber than other people, but they are the folks who walk around with brilliant white lights in nighttime riots.

Combat stress isn't the only problem for soldiers isolated in Iraq - there are family issues, re-integration issues when soldiers go home on leave, loneliness.

I've always thought of myself as a journalist; that was what I did.

My kids, who are grown now and living in L.A., are used to me packing up and taking off to somewhere weird.

I was a newspaper editor in the Army, and I know something about the Army PR culture.

When you're writing two books a year, you really need some time off and don't want to use that down time for touring. I do like talking with readers, though; they can tell you important stuff.

Before the Internet became so powerful, I toured extensively. With the rise of the Internet, touring apparently has become less important.

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.