Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.
John SandfordJust go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.
John SandfordI've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.
John SandfordGonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7
John SandfordAs 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.
John Sandford