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John Sandford

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John Sandford, born on February 23, 1944, is a renowned American novelist, known for his works in crime and suspense novels. His stories are highly appreciated for their unique narrative style and profound character development.

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“This could be handled. Everything can be handled by he who waits.”

Patience Timing

Book:Silent Prey

Source: Silent Prey

“Got here half an hour ago and had a look, eyeballin' it," Sawyer said. "It's murder, all right. Tell you something else - the sun went down, and it's as dark as the inside of a horses's ass out here." "You're sure?" "Well, I've never actually been inside a horses's ass.”

Humor Horse Bad Blood Virgil Flowers

Author:John Sandford

“O'Dell led the way back: he was an actor, Lucas realized, rolling slowly down the restaurant like a German tank, nodding into some booths, pointedly ignoring others, the rolled copy of the Wall Street Journal whacking his leg.”

Cop German Actor Tank Police Sports Bar

Book:Silent Prey

Source: Silent Prey

“Volvos are fundamentally invisible.”

Humor Funny Invisible Outrage Mgg Danny John Sandford Michele Cook The Singular Menace Volvos

Book:Outrage

Source: Outrage

“What the f-f-f... What's that supposed to mean?" the reporter sputtered. The TV cameraman behind him was laughing. TV people ranked radio people, so laughing was all right. "What's 'f-f-f' supposed to mean?" Lester asked. He turned away and pointed to a woman wearing glasses the size of compact discs. "You." "What precautions should women in the Twin Cities take?" She had an improbably smooth delivery, with great round O's, as though she were reading for a play.”

Television Police Radio Journalism Reporters Tv Press Conferences Journalists Press

Book:Eyes of Prey

Source: Eyes of Prey

“They were shot with a shotgun and put in garbage bags and thrown under a bridge," Shrake said. "If it wasn't murder, it was a really weird accident.”

Murder Sarcasm Accident Shotgun

Book:Storm Prey

Source: Storm Prey

“I'm a picture of abject fear. If I had my choice between flying to El Paso or getting a colonoscopy, I'd have to think about it.”

Fear Of Flying Visual Writing

Book:Golden Prey

Source: Golden Prey

“O'Dell's driver was a broad man with a Korean War crew cut, his hair the color of rolled steel. A hatchet nose split basalt eyes, and his lips were dry and thick: a Gila monster's.”

Korean War Lizard Chauffeur Gila Monster

Book:Silent Prey

Source: Silent Prey

“She had eyes that Rembrandt would have painted.”

Book:Silent Prey

Source: Silent Prey

“Lucas looked down the street toward the Metrodome. "I don't want to do anything today. I just want to sit somewhere and see if I can feel good. There's a Twins game...." "Sarah's never been." "You wanna see a game, kid? They ain't the Cubs, but what the hell." Lucas lifted Sarah to straddle the back of his neck and she grabbed his ear and him with the pacifier. What felt like a gob of saliva hit him in the part of his hair. "I'll teach you how to boo. Maybe we can get you a bag to put on your head.”

Fans Baseball Chicago Cubs Sports Fans Minnesota Twins

Book:Eyes of Prey

Source: Eyes of Prey

“If I get killed, put my boots back on me.”

Humor Funny Death Boots Outrage Mgg Killed Twist John Sandford Michele Cook The Singular Menace Harmon

Book:Outrage

Source: Outrage

“If a Martian were watching our television shows, he'd conclude that guns were more common than hammers. They're not evil themselves--they're tools--but everywhere you go, bad people have them. It behooves the righteous to at least know how they work.”

Outrage Mgg Guns Shay John Sandford Michele Cook The Singular Menace Harmon

Book:Outrage

Source: Outrage

“Everyone should have a hippie painter anarchist in their lives. It's the guys in silvered aviators with guns that you've got to be wary of.”

Artists Mgg Twist Rampage John Sandford Michele Cook The Singular Menace Harmon

Book:Rampage

Source: Rampage

“I'm talking to a guy who says he was taken up in a flying saucer and had sexual experiments done on him - which, I got to say, is probably the only sexual experiments he's ever had done on him, that didn't involve a heifer.”

Flying Saucer Heifer

Author:John Sandford

“When any worthwhile thing is done in the world, it's usually done by somebody weird.”

Weird Outrage Mgg John Sandford Michele Cook The Singular Menace

Book:Outrage

Source: Outrage

“Everything we're doing is freakin' iffy. That's what makes it so much fun.”

Fun Outrage Mgg Chances Havoc John Sandford Michele Cook The Singular Menace Iffy

Book:Outrage

Source: Outrage

“I am not so afraid that I cannot see the truth.”

Truth Fear Outrage Mgg John Sandford Michele Cook The Singular Menace Fenfang

Book:Outrage

Source: Outrage

“Like the NRA says, it's better to have a machine gun and not need it than to need a machine gun and not have it.”

Humor Funny Outrage Mgg Guns Nra John Sandford Michele Cook The Singular Menace

Book:Outrage

Source: Outrage

“Why bother to go through life if you can't do interesting shit?”

Carpe Diem Mgg Yolo Rampage John Sandford Michele Cook The Singular Menace

Book:Rampage

Source: Rampage

“He glanced at his watch: three twenty-seven in the afternoon, more or less. With a Rolex, he'd discovered, more or less had to be good enough.”

Time Watch Rolex

Book:Silent Prey

Source: Silent Prey

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

Happens Cities Strange Things Happen Countryside Dwellers

Author:John Sandford

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

Writing Looks Pieces Nice Down And Very Nice

Author:John Sandford

“Most people like a little sex in their novels.”

People Littles Sex Novel

Author:John Sandford

“Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.”

People Writing Trying Kind Imagination Basements

Author:John Sandford

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

Firsts Interesting Couple Meetings

Author:John Sandford

“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?'”

People Character Building

Author:John Sandford

“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.”

Ifs Looks Kind Book Scene Pops Setting Settings

Author:John Sandford

“You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.”

Author:John Sandford

“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.”

People Knows Needs Writing Years Wells I Can Two Book Helping Honest Becoming Finished

Author: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.”

Men World Done Would Be Hours Talking Four Twenties Western Phones Billions Cells Valleys Pigs Cell Phone Verge Sexist Western World Silicon Silicon Valley

Book:Gathering Prey: Prey

Source: Gathering Prey: Prey

“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.”

Needs I Can Feelings Pain Individual Hurt My Own Garden Forgiving Wounds Anguish Behalf Repent Tempting Devastated Gethsemane

Author:John Sandford

“Catholics don't scream about Jesus, they scream about the bishop.”

Jesus Catholic Scream Bishops

Author:John Sandford

“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.”

Turns Crime Ugly Theft Countryside

Author:John Sandford

“Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7”

Dark Rocks Flower Moon Rain Flats Cows Detectives Clerks

Author:John Sandford

“I'm so horny the crack of dawn isn't safe.”

Safe Dawn Cracks Horny

Author:John Sandford

“Nuts don’t come in bunches. Only grapes do.”

Bunch Nuts Grapes

Book:Shock Wave

Source: Shock Wave

About the Author

Born: February 23, 1944
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 36

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