I've been around the surf culture since I was a kid. I grew up in a beach town in Rhode Island. Then… — Don Winslow Around Copy Share Image
As a surfer, I think of places like a wave: you see one thing on the surface. But you always know there's… — Don Winslow Always 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… — Don Winslow Book Copy Share Image
I have to remind the people who put down East Coast surfing that Kelly Slater is from Florida. — Don Winslow Coast Copy Share Image
Well, if you're writing a thriller, you have to have your character in mortal jeopardy on page 1 or it's not a thriller. — Don Winslow Character Copy Share Image
“He tells his guys, you change the oil in a Nissan, you just can't kill it. You'll die before that car will.” — Don Winslow Cars Copy Share Image
As a writer, when you fall in love with a place, you want to spend more time in it, either physically or… — Don Winslow Either Copy Share Image
“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 Catherine 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
“You don’t let them knock you out, you make them knock you out. You make them break their fucking hands knocking you… — Don Winslow Mirror 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 think we need to rethink our ideas about what policing is and should be. I think we need to rethink our… — Don Winslow Criminal justice 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
I lived in mafia neighborhoods off and on when I was a kid. If you were in Little Italy, in East Harlem,… — Don Winslow Brooklyn 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 Fair play Copy Share Image
“Let freedom ring / let the white dove sing / let the whole world know that today is a day of reckoning.… — Don Winslow 4th of july Copy Share Image
As a novelist, you have to realise that the novel and the film have to live separate lives. They're just different, like… — Don Winslow Alike 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
I was very influenced by films and books like 'Serpico,' 'The French Connection,' and 'Prince of the City.' They were some of… — Don Winslow Books Copy Share Image
I don't recognize myself. I don't know who I am anymore." And it's all fun and games until someone loses an I. — Don Winslow Fun 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
“The NRA assholes will tell you that “guns don’t kill people, people do.” Yeah, Malone thinks, people with guns.” — Don Winslow Amendment Copy Share Image
“We go off the meds and elect Richard Nixon, the Nurse Ratched of the American political psych ward.” — Don Winslow Nixon Copy Share Image
“Also: do not fuck with someone until you know exactly who the fuck you're fucking with. And then don't do it.” — Don Winslow Fuck 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
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
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 Addicted Copy Share Image
I think one of the problems with being a fiction writer these days is that you can't keep up with the headlines.… — Don Winslow Absurd 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… — Don Winslow Crime Copy Share Image
“You know the word 'barbarian’ came from the Romans? It meant 'redheaded.’ They was talking about you people. I saw that on… — Don Winslow Barbarian Copy Share Image
“In his mind’s eye, though, he sees— —Taliban moving like scorpions across a similar landscape his own caravan blown to shit blood… — Don Winslow Ben Copy Share Image
“Cops fall into two categories—grass eaters and meat eaters. The grass eaters are the small-timers—they take a cut from the car-towing companies,… — Don Winslow Police Copy Share Image
How much more money do we have to waste, how many more families have to be destroyed, how many more people have… — Don Winslow American people Copy Share Image
“So you got Black Lives Matter up your ass, every citizen a journalist with a cell-phone camera at the ready, and you… — Don Winslow Black lives 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
“The suits love their numbers, Malone thinks. This new management breed of cops are like the sabermetrics baseball people. They believe the… — Don Winslow Cops Copy Share Image
That sounds like Anthony Soprano. He has a point. I've said it before: if you're black and you sell dope, you end… — Don Winslow Black Copy Share Image
“You need the money, the cash flow, but it's more than that, admit it. You love the game. The thrill, the taking… — Don Winslow Adventure Copy Share Image
“We are all cripples, Keller thinks, limping together through this crippled world. It’s what we owe to each other. Chuy goes inside.… — Don Winslow Know God Copy Share Image
You watch Jeff Sessions testifying in front of Congress, Jesus, like watching an amnesiac: "I don't recall," "I don't remember," "I don't… — Don Winslow Jesus Copy Share Image
