The novelist is the vestigial bone on the body cinema. We're like the little toe that can be cut off. — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
A writer who doesn't need the money gains power and is dangerous in a negotiation. — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
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 Image
I get started at 5:30 in the morning and write till 10 A.M. Then I hike six or seven miles before going… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
I was very influenced by films and books like 'Serpico,' 'The French Connection,' and 'Prince of the City.' They were some of… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
As a writer, when you fall in love with a place, you want to spend more time in it, either physically or… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
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… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
Producing words isn't a problem for me. And I usually write two books at a time. When one horse gets winded, you… — 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
I try to pay attention to language. I think that as a general rule, we as writers talk too much and we… — 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
With a 660-page book, you don't read every sentence aloud. I am terrified for the poor guy doing the audio book. But… — 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
