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There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.

~John Sandford

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These characters are not spontaneous creations. They are engineered down to the last nut and bolt.

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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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If you do outline, you have to be aware of the problems that that kind of thing can cause.

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Books set in Brooklyn and L.A. are often about people who are rootless, who want to go somewhere else. In the Midwest, though, the stories are about people who want to stay where they are - who like where they are.

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I have a problem with the way the media deals with a lot of law enforcement issues.

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When I was reporting crime... I never had the sense of clockwork conspiracies or some kind of imposing order of evil. What I sensed was things just sort of falling apart.

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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.

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: February 23rd, 1944

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