So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book. — Don Winslow Book Copy Share Image
We always think of borders as something that separates two peoples but of course they unite them. It's something you have in… — Don Winslow 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
“There are the gods of place and the gods of commerce, and if you have to bet who’s going to win out,… — Don Winslow Business 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
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
“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
“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
Police departments are always a reflection of the society that they serve. Is there such a thing as 'police culture?' Absolutely. Is… — Don Winslow Culture Copy Share Image
Shane Salerno and I adapted my book Savages together, and I learned a lot about adaptation. I think it's an extremely difficult… — Don Winslow Adaptation 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
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
“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 Copy Share Image
Ridley Scott obviously an iconic director, he's made some fantastic films. Obviously a very smart, very tasteful, thoughtful guy. So yeah, I'm… — Don Winslow Cinema Copy Share Image
It's important to me that the reader goes on a ride with the characters, that you set context enough to know, "Okay,… — Don Winslow Ambition Copy Share Image
“This is what Mexican cops appreciate that American cops don’t. We are partners, mi hermano Arturo, in the same enterprise. Comrades in… — Don Winslow Cops Copy Share Image
“In America, everything is about systems,” Barrera said. “In Mexico, everything is about personal relationships.” — Don Winslow Mexico 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
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
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
My problem is not that there are too few ideas out there. It's that there are too many. — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
“Step by motherfucking step. Our ends know our beginnings but the reverse isn’t true.” — Don Winslow Beginning 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
“Nasty Ass got his street name because he always smells like he has a round in the chamber. If” — Don Winslow 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
“This look like college to you?” Malone asks. “You see coeds, Frisbees, man buns? You don’t take notes, you don’t write anything… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
In the first place, it's surreal to watch filming, to see the little ideas you had in your head and now Taylor… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
I used to joke that my next book would be about puppies that have lost a chew toy, and everywhere they went,… — Don Winslow Animal 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 boys quiet until Ben looks across the table at Chon, holds his thumb and index finger a millimeter apart, and says,… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
I have a life, I have a wife. I have an adult son who I'm very close to, and friends. I go… — Don Winslow Balance 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
“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 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
As someone who has researched and written about the Mexican cartels and the futile 'war on drugs' for coming on twenty years,… — Don Winslow 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
“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
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
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 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
