Literary Birthday – 23 February – John Sandford
Happy Birthday, John Sandford, born 23 February 1944.
John Sandford Quotes
- 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?’
- 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.
- 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.
- Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you’ll find it is a very nice piece of writing.
- 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.
- Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.
John Sandford, whose real name is John Roswell Camp, is an American crime novelist and former Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. Camp is the author of 54 published novels, as of the summer of 2022. He is best known for his series of Prey novels featuring Lucas Davenport. The first novel, published in 1989, was Rules of Prey
. His latest is Lethal Prey. In addition to the Prey, Virgil Flowers, and Letty Davenport novels, all part of the Prey universe, he is also the co-author of three young-adult books in the Singular Menace series, written with Michele Cook, and co-author of the science-fiction thriller Saturn Run with Ctein.
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