Combat stress isn’t the only problem for soldiers isolated in Iraq – there are family issues, re-integration issues when soldiers go home on leave, loneliness. John Sandford Read Quote
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. John Sandford Read Quote
Women just make interesting characters, especially when you’re working against cliches. John Sandford Read Quote
Working for the ‘Miami Herald’ in 1972, I covered street action for both the Republican and Democratic national conventions in Miami and saw probably the most violent conventions ever – more violent than even 1968 in Chicago. John Sandford Read Quote
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?’ John Sandford Read Quote
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. John Sandford Read Quote
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. John Sandford Read Quote
You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you’re somehow set for life. John Sandford Read Quote
If you do outline, you have to be aware of the problems that that kind of thing can cause. John Sandford Read Quote
