“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 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
The Force deals a lot with the heroin epidemic, which I'm sorry to know people are experiencing in Canada. — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
What happened with the opioid epidemic is the Mexican cartels made a very deliberate, corporate decision to undercut the price of opioids.… — Don Winslow 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
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… — 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 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
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
