We have contradictory expectations of police: We want to be perfectly safe and perfectly free. We want total security and total privacy. We want the bad guys stopped and the good guys unmolested. That's great for the consumer; try providing… — 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
