John Sandford — American Novelist born on February 23, 1944,

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Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.
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.
You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.
I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.