Don Winslow

“...'would have' is just another way of saying 'didn't.”

— Don Winslow

“America’s longest war is the war on drugs.”

— Don Winslow

I think you can use fiction to get inside people's minds.

— Don Winslow

A great review is great. A bad review is the worst.

— Don Winslow

“Guns and dope are the soup and sandwich of American crime.”

— Don Winslow

I was a safari guide in the 1980s in Kenya.

— Don Winslow

“People don’t run the cartel; the cartel runs people.”

— Don Winslow

I would prefer things to be peaceful and not have conflict.

— Don Winslow

“Now he seeks truth in silence. He seeks God in the same, although he has come to believe that truth and God…

— Don Winslow

“Also: do not fuck with someone until you know exactly who the fuck you're fucking with. And then don't do it.”

— Don Winslow

“The NRA assholes will tell you that “guns don’t kill people, people do.” Yeah, Malone thinks, people with guns.”

— Don Winslow

“We go off the meds and elect Richard Nixon, the Nurse Ratched of the American political psych ward.”

— Don Winslow

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

I don't recognize myself. I don't know who I am anymore." And it's all fun and games until someone loses an I.

— Don Winslow

I was very influenced by films and books like 'Serpico,' 'The French Connection,' and 'Prince of the City.' They were some of…

— Don Winslow

As a novelist, you have to realise that the novel and the film have to live separate lives. They're just different, like…

— Don Winslow

Ridley Scott obviously an iconic director, he's made some fantastic films. Obviously a very smart, very tasteful, thoughtful guy. So yeah, I'm…

— Don Winslow

For a while, many years ago, my job was to get mugged. My job was to walk around Times Square trying to…

— Don Winslow

Police departments are always a reflection of the society that they serve. Is there such a thing as 'police culture?' Absolutely. Is…

— Don Winslow

You have to avoid what I call the 'smartest boy in class syndrome,' which is, just because you know it, you don't…

— Don Winslow

“You need the money, the cash flow, but it's more than that, admit it. You love the game. The thrill, the taking…

— Don Winslow

“We are all cripples, Keller thinks, limping together through this crippled world. It’s what we owe to each other. Chuy goes inside.…

— Don Winslow

You watch Jeff Sessions testifying in front of Congress, Jesus, like watching an amnesiac: "I don't recall," "I don't remember," "I don't…

— Don Winslow

Shane Salerno and I adapted my book Savages together, and I learned a lot about adaptation. I think it's an extremely difficult…

— Don Winslow

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

“Just a short while ago the Republicans were objects of fear and hatred—now they’re just pathetic assholes. Barry took them to the…

— Don Winslow

What happened with the opioid epidemic is the Mexican cartels made a very deliberate, corporate decision to undercut the price of opioids.…

— Don Winslow

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

I'm a jazz guy and a Bruce Springsteen guy. So I wanted something more current, and edgier, and angrier. So I asked…

— Don Winslow

“He feels ennui depression adrift in his life. Purposeless, perhaps because —dig a well in the Sudan and thejanjaweed come in and…

— Don Winslow

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

American cops are the ones who are in the emergency rooms. They're the ones who go to the morgues. They're the ones…

— Don Winslow

“the Times says there's a heroin epidemic, Malone thinks, which is only an epidemic of course because now white people are dying.…

— Don Winslow

“We proclaimed the freedom of the individual, bought and drove millions of cars to prove it, built more roads for the cars…

— Don Winslow

“What happened? Stan repeats. To us? To the country? What happened when childhood ends in Dealey Plaza, in Memphis, in the kitchen…

— Don Winslow

“She's also ruthless - it's love me or off with your head. She's the Red Queen”

— Don Winslow

“Dope is supposed to be bad, but in a bad world it’s good”

— Don Winslow

I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem.

— Don Winslow

“We will go to heaven or we will go to hell, but we will go together.”

— Don Winslow

Don't kid yourself: The justice system is a business. It's about money.

— Don Winslow