“She's also ruthless - it's love me or off with your head. She's the Red Queen” — Don Winslow Queen Copy Share Image
“Do you know about Irish Alzheimer’s?” Malone asks. “No.” “You forget everything but the grudges,” — Don Winslow Grudges Copy Share Image
By any objective standard, Joaquin Guzman Loera is an evil man who has caused untold suffering for others. — Don Winslow Evil Copy Share Image
The novelist is the vestigial bone on the body cinema. We're like the little toe that can be cut off. — Don Winslow Body Copy Share Image
“In America, everything is about systems,” Barrera said. “In Mexico, everything is about personal relationships.” — Don Winslow Mexico 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 Amendment Copy Share Image
“The people, they don't know what it takes sometimes to keep them safe and it's better that they don't.” — Don Winslow Cops Copy Share Image
You know, I mean this sincerely, you know, I'm so grateful that I get to get up in the morning and do… — Don Winslow Books 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
It's funny because I think that genre literature can be looked down on by literature literature. And I like that! I like… — Don Winslow Books Copy Share Image
The tragedy is that the police and inner city communities should be allies. Who suffers most from violent crime in America? Inner… — Don Winslow America Copy Share Image
I was trying in 'The Power of the Dog' to write a brutally accurate in-your-face, if you will, description of 30 years… — Don Winslow Accurate 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 Billions 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
We need to do something about gun violence in America. But every time one of these things happen, we say the same… — Don Winslow Amendment 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 Cartels Copy Share Image
“You live in El Paso, you’re a pocho, an Americanized Mexican, and no one can tell Pablo that it doesn’t change you.… — Don Winslow Computers Copy Share Image
“He feels ennui depression adrift in his life. Purposeless, perhaps because —dig a well in the Sudan and thejanjaweed come in and… — Don Winslow Ben Copy Share Image
I'm a jazz guy and a Bruce Springsteen guy. So I wanted something more current, and edgier, and angrier. So I asked… — Don Winslow Book 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 Cartels Copy Share Image
A lot of times, writers are told write as big as you can, and that's not untrue. But at times I think… — Don Winslow Average 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… — Don Winslow Balance Copy Share Image
“Just a short while ago the Republicans were objects of fear and hatred—now they’re just pathetic assholes. Barry took them to the… — Don Winslow Democracy Copy Share Image
“Nasty Ass got his street name because he always smells like he has a round in the chamber. If” — Don Winslow Nasty Copy Share Image
“Life is trying to kill us,” she says. Life, Malone thinks, is trying to kill everyone. And it always succeeds. Sometimes before… — Don Winslow Death Copy Share Image
“Step by motherfucking step. Our ends know our beginnings but the reverse isn’t true.” — Don Winslow Beginning Copy Share Image
My problem is not that there are too few ideas out there. It's that there are too many. — Don Winslow Few 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
Police work in major cities - and New York is no exception - has always been vulnerable to corruption. Teddy Roosevelt built… — Don Winslow Corruption Copy Share Image
“Art can’t decide whether the War on Drugs is an obscene absurdity or an absurd obscenity. In either case, it’s a tragic,… — Don Winslow Art 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… — Don Winslow Books 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 Canada Copy Share Image
