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" Things fall apart and happen out of stupidity and carelessness. "
John Sandford
Fall
Out
Stupidity
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" Before the Internet became so powerful, I toured extensively. With the rise of the Internet, touring apparently has become less important. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" When you're writing two books a year, you really need some time off and don't want to use that down time for touring. I do like talking with readers, though; they can tell you important stuff. "
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" A lot of journalists are talented enough to write a mystery novel, and I would say that most of the top-end mystery writers actually started out as reporters. But there is more to it than just the writing; there's a learning process, and most journalists aren't willing to do it. "
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" People ought to be slapped up side of the head, not always get what they expect. That's why sometimes the bad guy gets away. "
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" I fear becoming formulaic. Some of my books are. "
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" I was a newspaper editor in the Army, and I know something about the Army PR culture. "
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" If readers tell you that stretches of dialogue or narrative were too long, that they couldn't tell who was talking, that's something that can be fixed. "
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" These characters are not spontaneous creations. They are engineered down to the last nut and bolt. "
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" If you do outline, you have to be aware of the problems that that kind of thing can cause. "
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" 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. "
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Street
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" I really do need the help of other people working with me. "
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" There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting. "
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" I'm somewhat depressive. "
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" A lot of my friends were retiring from the newspaper business, and the newspaper pensions are not enormous. "
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" I'm just trying to normalize my life and get ready for the last 20 years or whatever I've got. It's a lot to take care of. "
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Care
My Life
" Books set in Brooklyn and L.A. are often about people who are rootless, who want to go somewhere else. In the Midwest, though, the stories are about people who want to stay where they are - who like where they are. "
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" 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. "
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" I once paddled a canoe the length of the Mississippi River all the way from Itasca to New Orleans. "
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" That's my sense of how crime works: that it's not any kind of calculated evil driven by the devil, but just control disintegrating. "
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