“Step by motherfucking step. Our ends know our beginnings but the reverse isn’t true.” — Don Winslow Beginning Copy Share Image
I never think about a movie when I'm writing a book, because I think only two things could happen and both of… — Don Winslow Book Copy Share Image
“New York City has the strictest gun laws in the country but that doesn’t make any difference because all the guns come… — Don Winslow Amendment Copy Share Image
“In America, everything is about systems,” Barrera said. “In Mexico, everything is about personal relationships.” — Don Winslow Mexico Copy Share Image
You know, I mean this sincerely, you know, I'm so grateful that I get to get up in the morning and do… — Don Winslow Books 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 Cops Copy Share Image
The novelist is the vestigial bone on the body cinema. We're like the little toe that can be cut off. — Don Winslow Body Copy Share Image
“Do you know about Irish Alzheimer’s?” Malone asks. “No.” “You forget everything but the grudges,” — Don Winslow Grudges Copy Share Image
Alcoholism, tobacco, drunk driving, these things will always be with us. There's always going to be a certain percentage of any population… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
“If the world played fair, he’d play fair. But the cards are stacked against the prosecutors and police. Miranda, Mapp, all the… — Don Winslow Fair play 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
“Let freedom ring / let the white dove sing / let the whole world know that today is a day of reckoning.… — 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 Absurd Copy Share Image
Bookstores never seem to know where to put me on the shelves. But I do. I love my genre and I love… — Don Winslow Crime Copy Share Image
I lived in mafia neighborhoods off and on when I was a kid. If you were in Little Italy, in East Harlem,… — Don Winslow Brooklyn Copy Share Image
“His old priests might have told him there's sins of commission not omission. It's not always the things you do but the… — Don Winslow Truth Copy Share Image
“There are the gods of place and the gods of commerce, and if you have to bet who’s going to win out,… — Don Winslow Business Copy Share Image
By any objective standard, Joaquin Guzman Loera is an evil man who has caused untold suffering for others. — Don Winslow Evil Copy Share Image
My grandmother was from Guelph, Ont. I grew up playing ice hockey, I'm a massive fan. A great-uncle who was in the… — Don Winslow Grandmother Copy Share Image
There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery. — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
“Your strengths are your weaknesses. The more you try to protect something, the more vulnerable you make it.” — Don Winslow Strength 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 Book 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
If Trump was really looking for Mexicans to pay for the wall, he should put in a call to Sinaloa. They'd probably… — 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
“Mexico, the land of pyramids and palaces, deserts and jungles, mountains and beaches, markets and gardens, boulevards and cobblestoned streets, broad plazas… — Don Winslow Investing Copy Share Image
I think we need to rethink our ideas about what policing is and should be. I think we need to rethink our… — Don Winslow Criminal justice Copy Share Image
“Everyone thought the mob was done after RICO… And they were. Then the Towers came down. Overnight, the feds shifted three-quarters of… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
“You don’t let them knock you out, you make them knock you out. You make them break their fucking hands knocking you… — Don Winslow Mirror Copy Share Image
As someone who has researched and written about the Mexican cartels and the futile 'war on drugs' for coming on twenty years,… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
We need to do something about gun violence in America. But every time one of these things happen, we say the same… — Don Winslow Amendment Copy Share Image
“You live in El Paso, you’re a pocho, an Americanized Mexican, and no one can tell Pablo that it doesn’t change you.… — Don Winslow Computers 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
“Truth, justice and the American way. The American way is: truth and justice maybe say hello in the hallway, send each other… — Don Winslow American way Copy Share Image
The Americans take a product that literally grows on trees and turn it into a valuable commodity. Without them, cocaine and marijuana… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
The tragedy is that the police and inner city communities should be allies. Who suffers most from violent crime in America? Inner… — Don Winslow America 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 Books Copy Share Image
In the first place, it's surreal to watch filming, to see the little ideas you had in your head and now Taylor… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
We have contradictory expectations of police: We want to be perfectly safe and perfectly free. We want total security and total privacy.… — Don Winslow Bad guy 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 Animal Copy Share Image
