John Sandford

“As a journalist, I interviewed people, and you begin to feel different rhythms in speech, and you can use those things to help carve out a character.”

“If you actually hang out in the countryside, which I did, it's actually quite peaceful.”

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

“There are two worldviews in thriller writing: the paranoid view, like Chuck Logan's, that everything is inside a large clockwork. I like those books; they're intricate and thought out, but my view is that everything is chaotic and stupid. Chaos reigns, and civilized people do what they can to hold i...”

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

“Things fall apart and happen out of stupidity and carelessness.”