List of John Sandford Quotes

Gonna Rain Like A Cow Pissin' On A Flat Rock" [drugstore Clerk To Detective Virgil Flowers] Dark Of The Moon, P.7

You Have The Feeling That If You Get A Pulitzer, You're Somehow Set For Life.

Most People Who Are Trying To Write Kind Of Sit In Their Basements And Pull It Out Of Their Imaginations.

There's Something About Marriage That Is Not As Intensely Romantic Or Interesting As A Couple's First Meeting.

As An Individual With My Own Hurts, I Go Into The Garden (gethsemane) As Often As I Need To. There I Identify With The Pain In The Other, With My Part In That Pain, My Part In Tempting Someone To Wound Me. I Experience The Other's Pain, And God's Pain, And Am Devastated - Because Their Pain Becomes My Own. Feeling Such Anguish, I Can Forgive, Or Deeply Repent, Either For Myself Or On Behalf Of The Other.

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.

Most People Like A Little Sex In Their Novels.

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.

Catholics Don't Scream About Jesus, They Scream About The Bishop.

I've Always Been Sort Of Interested In The Rural Countryside. Things Happen Out There That Are Very Strange To City Dwellers.

I'm So Horny The Crack Of Dawn Isn't Safe.

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.