I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem. — Don Winslow Art work Copy Share Image
“She's also ruthless - it's love me or off with your head. She's the Red Queen” — Don Winslow Queen Copy Share Image
There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery. — Don Winslow 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
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
“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 Copy Share Image
“Nasty Ass got his street name because he always smells like he has a round in the chamber. If” — Don Winslow 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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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 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 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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
I have to remind the people who put down East Coast surfing that Kelly Slater is from Florida. — 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… — Don Winslow Book 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 Copy Share Image
