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
“In the words of Oscar Wilde, ‘I can resist everything but temptation.” — Don Winslow 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
Don't kid yourself: The justice system is a business. It's about money. — Don Winslow Business 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 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 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 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
If you let people believe that you are weak, sooner or later you’re going to have to kill them. — Don Winslow 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 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 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 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
“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
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
“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
“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 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 Copy Share Image
You have to avoid what I call the 'smartest boy in class syndrome,' which is, just because you know it, you don't… — Don Winslow 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
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 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 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
“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
“We will go to heaven or we will go to hell, but we will go together.” — Don Winslow Heaven 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“We go off the meds and elect Richard Nixon, the Nurse Ratched of the American political psych ward.” — Don Winslow 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
There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery. — Don Winslow 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
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
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 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 Copy Share Image
