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• Bernard Cornwell:

  I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstac

• John Sandford:

  When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How

• John Sandford:

  Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of

• John Sandford:

  Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imagina

• John Sandford:

  I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very

• John Sandford:

  Most people like a little sex in their novels.

• John Sandford:

  They don't have a lot of crime in the countryside other than theft. But every once in a while, thin

• John Sandford:

  Well, I am becoming doddering and old but I have - I'm writing two books a year now. It's like 220,

• John Sandford:

  There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's fir

• John Sandford:

  These characters are not spontaneous creations. They are engineered down to the last nut and bolt.