Don Winslow Quotes

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

Great, Bad, Worst

As a surfer, I think of places like a wave: you see one thing on the surface. But you always know there's something different going on underneath.
Don Winslow

Different, Places, Surface

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

Work, Morning, Before

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

Down, Put, East

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

Work, Morning, Problem

I was a safari guide in the 1980s in Kenya.
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

Power, War, Trying

I would prefer things to be peaceful and not have conflict.
Don Winslow

Peaceful, Conflict, Prefer

I've been around the surf culture since I was a kid. I grew up in a beach town in Rhode Island. Then eventually I lived in Dana Point, Calif., a real surf hotbed.
Don Winslow

Real, Around, Point

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

Place, Ideas, Head

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

Problem, Few, Ideas

Producing words isn't a problem for me. And I usually write two books at a time. When one horse gets winded, you jump on the other.
Don Winslow

Time, Words, Two

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

Book, Thought, Write

The bridge to Coronado Island off San Diego was built because the mob had a hotel there and needed a way to get people out there.
Don Winslow

Off, Needed, Bridge

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

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

Spiritual, Emotional, Economic

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

Two, Common, Unite

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

Character, Writing, Mortal

You know, I mean this sincerely, you know, I'm so grateful that I get to get up in the morning and do this, you know, and write books.
Don Winslow

Morning, Mean, Grateful

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Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: October 31, 1953

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