If you let people believe that you are weak, sooner or later you’re going to have to kill them. — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
I have to remind the people who put down East Coast surfing that Kelly Slater is from Florida. — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
The Force deals a lot with the heroin epidemic, which I'm sorry to know people are experiencing in Canada. — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
“The people, they don't know what it takes sometimes to keep them safe and it's better that they don't.” — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
How much more money do we have to waste, how many more families have to be destroyed, how many more people have… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart. Never. Ever. 'You can come down the evolutionary ladder,' Chon has… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
I was trying in 'The Power of the Dog' to write a brutally accurate in-your-face, if you will, description of 30 years… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
I used to joke that my next book would be about puppies that have lost a chew toy, and everywhere they went,… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
The bridge to Coronado Island off San Diego was built because the mob had a hotel there and needed a way to… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
We always think of borders as something that separates two peoples but of course they unite them. It's something you have in… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
I think people will be surprised at some of the things about the shootings by policemen of unarmed African-American men. But I… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
A lot of times, writers are told write as big as you can, and that's not untrue. But at times I think… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
American cops didn't create that atmosphere, they're the ones though who have to live with it on a daily basis. These are… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
I think one of the problems with being a fiction writer these days is that you can't keep up with the headlines.… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
It's funny because I think that genre literature can be looked down on by literature literature. And I like that! I like… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
I have a life, I have a wife. I have an adult son who I'm very close to, and friends. I go… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery. — Don Winslow Copy Share
“We proclaimed the freedom of the individual, bought and drove millions of cars to prove it, built more roads for the cars to drive… — Don Winslow Copy Share
We need to do something about gun violence in America. But every time one of these things happen, we say the same thing, and… — Don Winslow Copy Share
So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book. — Don Winslow Copy Share
I used to joke that my next book would be about puppies that have lost a chew toy, and everywhere they went, people were… — Don Winslow Copy Share
Bookstores never seem to know where to put me on the shelves. But I do. I love my genre and I love those writers,… — Don Winslow Copy Share
Shane Salerno and I adapted my book Savages together, and I learned a lot about adaptation. I think it's an extremely difficult thing to… — Don Winslow Copy Share
I've been writing since I was six years old. It's hard to imagine stopping. I would hate to think that I've already written my… — Don Winslow Copy Share
I lived in mafia neighborhoods off and on when I was a kid. If you were in Little Italy, in East Harlem, in Brooklyn...… — Don Winslow Copy Share
“Hell isn't having no choice. It's having to make a choice between horrific things.” — Don Winslow Copy Share
Producing words isn't a problem for me. And I usually write two books at a time. When one horse gets winded, you jump on… — Don Winslow Copy Share
I think people will be surprised at some of the things about the shootings by policemen of unarmed African-American men. But I also think… — Don Winslow Copy Share
“There are the gods of place and the gods of commerce, and if you have to bet who’s going to win out, put your… — Don Winslow Copy Share
