“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
“The suits love their numbers, Malone thinks. This new management breed of cops are like the sabermetrics baseball people. They believe the… — Don Winslow 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 Copy Share Image
There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery. — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
“We proclaimed the freedom of the individual, bought and drove millions of cars to prove it, built more roads for the cars to drive on so we could go the everywhere that was nowhere. We watered our lawns, we washed our cars, we gulped plastic bottles of water to stay hydrated in our dehydrated land, we put up water parks.… — 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 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 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 Image
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 Image
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 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 written my… — Don Winslow 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, in Brooklyn...… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
“Hell isn't having no choice. It's having to make a choice between horrific things.” — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
