A writer who doesn't need the money gains power and is dangerous in a negotiation. — Don Winslow Dangerous 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
And the most dangerous place on earth - Is where you’re safe. — Don Winslow Dangerous Copy Share Image
“In the words of Oscar Wilde, ‘I can resist everything but temptation.” — Don Winslow Oscar wilde 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
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 Always 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 Because 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 He 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 Cultural 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
“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
It's important to me that the reader goes on a ride with the characters, that you set context enough to know, "Okay,… — Don Winslow Ambition Copy Share Image
“This look like college to you?” Malone asks. “You see coeds, Frisbees, man buns? You don’t take notes, you don’t write anything… — Don Winslow Like College Copy Share Image
“This is what Mexican cops appreciate that American cops don’t. We are partners, mi hermano Arturo, in the same enterprise. Comrades in… — Don Winslow Cops Copy Share Image
I have a life, I have a wife. I have an adult son who I'm very close to, and friends. I go… — Don Winslow Balance Copy Share Image
“The boys quiet until Ben looks across the table at Chon, holds his thumb and index finger a millimeter apart, and says,… — Don Winslow Ben 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
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 Bright 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
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
“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 Cars 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 Changed 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
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
American cops are the ones who are in the emergency rooms. They're the ones who go to the morgues. They're the ones… — Don Winslow Coming home Copy Share Image
American cops didn't create that atmosphere, they're the ones though who have to live with it on a daily basis. These are… — Don Winslow Atmosphere Copy Share Image
“What happened? Stan repeats. To us? To the country? What happened when childhood ends in Dealey Plaza, in Memphis, in the kitchen… — Don Winslow Children 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… — Don Winslow Amusement parks Copy Share Image
“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 Drugs Copy Share Image
Don't kid yourself: The justice system is a business. It's about money. — Don Winslow Business Copy Share Image
“We will go to heaven or we will go to hell, but we will go together.” — Don Winslow Heaven Copy Share Image
I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem. — Don Winslow Art work Copy Share Image
