A writer who doesn’t need the money gains power and is dangerous in a negotiation. Don Winslow Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
For a while, many years ago, my job was to get mugged. My job was to walk around Times Square trying to get a mugger to attack me so that someone else could come in and arrest the mugger. Don Winslow Read Quote
It’s funny because I think that genre literature can be looked down on by literature literature. And I like that! I like being scorned; I like people looking down their noses at us a little bit… It gives us a little chip on our shoulder. Don Winslow Read Quote
As a writer, when you fall in love with a place, you want to spend more time in it, either physically or mentally, and so you write about it. Don Winslow Read Quote
When you criminalize something, only criminals can deal with it. When criminals deal with it, there’s no recourse to law, so there’s only recourse to violence. Don Winslow Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
