“In the words of Oscar Wilde, ‘I can resist everything but temptation.” — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart. — Don Winslow Intelligence Copy Share Image
My earliest influence was Shakespeare - I read Shakespeare incessantly as a kid. — Don Winslow Influence Copy Share Image
“Hell isn't having no choice. It's having to make a choice between horrific things.” — Don Winslow Bad choices Copy Share Image
A writer who doesn't need the money gains power and is dangerous in a negotiation. — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
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
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’m not— Lady Macbeth Lucrezia Borgia Catherine the Great. I am —a woman doing what she has to do. I am —the… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
Well, if you're writing a thriller, you have to have your character in mortal jeopardy on page 1 or it's not a thriller. — Don Winslow Character Copy Share Image
“He tells his guys, you change the oil in a Nissan, you just can't kill it. You'll die before that car will.” — 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 Book 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 Canada Copy Share Image
“So you got Black Lives Matter up your ass, every citizen a journalist with a cell-phone camera at the ready, and you… — Don Winslow Black lives 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 Attention 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 American people Copy Share Image
That sounds like Anthony Soprano. He has a point. I've said it before: if you're black and you sell dope, you end… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
“The suits love their numbers, Malone thinks. This new management breed of cops are like the sabermetrics baseball people. They believe the… — Don Winslow Cops Copy Share Image
“Cops fall into two categories—grass eaters and meat eaters. The grass eaters are the small-timers—they take a cut from the car-towing companies,… — Don Winslow Police Copy Share Image
“In his mind’s eye, though, he sees— —Taliban moving like scorpions across a similar landscape his own caravan blown to shit blood… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
“You know the word 'barbarian’ came from the Romans? It meant 'redheaded.’ They was talking about you people. I saw that on… — Don Winslow Barbarian Copy Share Image
The devil's in the details. The way I view my job is to bring the reader into a world they otherwise could… — Don Winslow Books Copy Share Image
“It’s the new face of narco gang war, isn’t it? They’re becoming media savvy. They used to hide their crimes, now they… — Don Winslow War Copy Share Image
I was researching some of the modern-day figures that The Sopranos were moulded on. So many iconic Sopranos moments. James Gandolfini and… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
“Simon drove as if he knew something about physics that Einstein hadn’t thought of and God never intended. If nature abhorred a… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
I have sat with the mothers who have lost addicted sons. I have sat with families of kids who have been killed… — Don Winslow Contribution 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 Book Copy Share Image
As a surfer, I think of places like a wave: you see one thing on the surface. But you always know there's… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
I've been around the surf culture since I was a kid. I grew up in a beach town in Rhode Island. Then… — 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 Books Copy Share Image
“Art can’t decide whether the War on Drugs is an obscene absurdity or an absurd obscenity. In either case, it’s a tragic,… — Don Winslow Art Copy Share Image
When you criminalize something, only criminals can deal with it. When criminals deal with it, there's no recourse to law, so there's… — Don Winslow Crime Copy Share Image
Police work in major cities - and New York is no exception - has always been vulnerable to corruption. Teddy Roosevelt built… — Don Winslow Corruption Copy Share Image
“Nasty Ass got his street name because he always smells like he has a round in the chamber. If” — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
“Life is trying to kill us,” she says. Life, Malone thinks, is trying to kill everyone. And it always succeeds. Sometimes before… — Don Winslow Death Copy Share Image
My problem is not that there are too few ideas out there. It's that there are too many. — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
