155 Quotes by John Sandford

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.

Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.

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?

We ain’t in California no more,” Pilate said. “Every fuckin’ body up here’s got a gun. Even that old lady in the hamburger shop, shot Michelle.

I’m so horny the crack of dawn isn’t safe.

I’ve always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.

It’s the way of the world, man. There are the worker bees, and the manager bees. The worker bees take care of the work, the manager bees take care of themselves.

Shrake asked. “I’m sweating like a blind lesbian in a sushi bar.

Marlys was a sturdy woman in her fifties, white curls clinging to her scalp like vanilla frosting. She wore rimless glasses, a homemade red-checked gingham dress, and low-topped Nikes. Short-nosed and pale, she had a small pink mouth that habitually pursed in thought, or disapproval.