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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.

There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery.

Don Winslow

A writer who doesn't need the money gains power and is dangerous in a negotiation.

Don Winslow

I have to remind the people who put down East Coast surfing that Kelly Slater is from Florida.

Don Winslow

The novelist is the vestigial bone on the body cinema. We're like the little toe that can be cut off.

Don Winslow

You have to avoid what I call the 'smartest boy in class syndrome,' which is, just because you know it, you don't have to tell it. I often will go through a manuscript crossing stuff out, and say, 'This is just too much,' you know?

Don Winslow

As a novelist, you have to realise that the novel and the film have to live separate lives. They're just different, like your kids, even if they look alike.

Don Winslow

If Trump was really looking for Mexicans to pay for the wall, he should put in a call to Sinaloa. They'd probably build it for him.

Don Winslow

We have contradictory expectations of police: We want to be perfectly safe and perfectly free. We want total security and total privacy. We want the bad guys stopped and the good guys unmolested. That's great for the consumer; try providing it.

Don Winslow

My earliest influence was Shakespeare - I read Shakespeare incessantly as a kid.

Don Winslow

I was very influenced by films and books like 'Serpico,' 'The French Connection,' and 'Prince of the City.' They were some of the reasons I became a crime writer.

Don Winslow

We always think of borders as something that separates two peoples but of course they unite them. It's something you have in common, literally.

Don Winslow

A great review is great. A bad review is the worst.

Don Winslow

I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem.

Don Winslow

The tragedy is that the police and inner city communities should be allies. Who suffers most from violent crime in America? Inner city communities. Who has a personal and professional interest in lowering that violence? Cops.

Don Winslow

My problem is not that there are too few ideas out there. It's that there are too many.

Don Winslow

So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book.

Don Winslow

I was trying in 'The Power of the Dog' to write a brutally accurate in-your-face, if you will, description of 30 years in the war on drugs. And the effect that that had on people.

Don Winslow

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

I get started at 5:30 in the morning and write till 10 A.M. Then I hike six or seven miles before going back to work.

Don Winslow

Don't kid yourself: The justice system is a business. It's about money.

Don Winslow

In the first place, it's surreal to watch filming, to see the little ideas you had in your head and now Taylor Kitsch is doing it, or Salma Hayek. And then to see it loud and bright onscreen is a trip.

Don Winslow