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John Sandford [1944-0] American
Rank: 111
Novelist


John Sandford, real name John Roswell Camp, is an American novelist and former journalist.

Marriage, Romantic

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There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting. Marriage, Romantic
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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?'
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Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.
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With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop.
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You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.
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I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.
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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.
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Well, I am becoming doddering and old but I have - I'm writing two books a year now. It's like 220,000 words or something like finished, and, honest to God, I can't do that. I really do need the help of, you know, other people working with me.
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These characters are not spontaneous creations. They are engineered down to the last nut and bolt.
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Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.
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Most people like a little sex in their novels.
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