“I’m not— Lady Macbeth Lucrezia Borgia Catherine the Great. I am —a woman doing what she has to do. I am —the… — Don Winslow Savages Copy Share Image
I get started at 5:30 in the morning and write till 10 A.M. Then I hike six or seven miles before going… — Don Winslow Back Copy Share Image
My earliest influence was Shakespeare - I read Shakespeare incessantly as a kid. — Don Winslow Influence 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
“Do you know about Irish Alzheimer’s?” Malone asks. “No.” “You forget everything but the grudges,” — Don Winslow 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
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
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
“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
For a while, many years ago, my job was to get mugged. My job was to walk around Times Square trying to… — Don Winslow Attack 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 Challenges 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 Climbs 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
“Now he seeks truth in silence. He seeks God in the same, although he has come to believe that truth and God… — Don Winslow Silence 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 Copy Share Image
If you let people believe that you are weak, sooner or later you’re going to have to kill them. — Don Winslow Believe Copy Share Image
When you criminalize something, only criminals can deal with it. When criminals deal with it, there's no recourse to law, so there's… — Don Winslow Crime 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
Don't kid yourself: The justice system is a business. It's about money. — Don Winslow Business 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 try to pay attention to language. I think that as a general rule, we as writers talk too much and we… — Don Winslow Attention 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
“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
“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 9-11 Copy Share Image
