Don Winslow famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

And the most dangerous place on earthâ€” Is where youâ€™re safe.
-- Don Winslow

#Earth #Safe #Dangerous
I think you can use fiction to get inside people's minds.
-- Don Winslow

#Thinking #People #Mind
Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart.
-- Don Winslow

#Smart #Stupid #People
I have sat with the mothers who have lost addicted sons. I have sat with families of kids who have been killed in drug-related gang violence. I have been to the prisons. I have seen the effects. At some point in time, I felt I had to do something other than write a novel about it, that I needed to try to make some sort of contribution, at least try to make some sort of difference in the real world.
-- Don Winslow

#Mother #Real #Writing
Alcoholism, tobacco, drunk driving, these things will always be with us. There's always going to be a certain percentage of any population that is addicted to certain substances.
-- Don Winslow

#Drunk #Population #Substance
I never think about a movie when I'm writing a book, because I think only two things could happen and both of them are bad. You write a lousy novel and a lousy film.
-- Don Winslow

#Book #Writing #Thinking
A lot of times, writers are told write as big as you can, and that's not untrue. But at times I think it's better to write as small as you can, to start scenes with little personal details or people who are doing average every day human things. That, to me, lets the average reader into that person's life. "Yeah I eat breakfast. I take a shower."
-- Don Winslow

#Writing #Thinking #Average
It's important to me that the reader goes on a ride with the characters, that you set context enough to know, "Okay, here's where we are in the world. Now we're just going to go inside this person's head, this guy's heart, this woman's ambitions and take it down to very, very small scale."
-- Don Winslow

#Heart #Ambition #Character
There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery.
-- Don Winslow

#Spiritual #Emotional #Kind
I would prefer things to be peaceful and not have conflict.
-- Don Winslow

#Peaceful #Conflict
I have to remind the people who put down East Coast surfing that Kelly Slater is from Florida.
-- Don Winslow

#Florida #People #Surfing
I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem.
-- Don Winslow

#Morning #Insomnia #Wicked
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 #Who I Am #Games
Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart. Never. Ever. 'You can come down the evolutionary ladder,' Chon has observed to Ben and O; 'you can't climb up.
-- Don Winslow

#Smart #Stupid #People
The Americans take a product that literally grows on trees and turn it into a valuable commodity. Without them, cocaine and ***** would be like oranges, and instead of making billions smuggling it, Iâ€™d be making pennies doing stoop labor in some California field, picking it.
-- Don Winslow

#Marijuana #California #Orange
If you let people believe that you are weak, sooner or later youâ€™re going to have to kill them.
-- Don Winslow

#Believe #People #Weak

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