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" I lived in mafia neighborhoods off and on when I was a kid. If you were in Little Italy, in East Harlem, in Brooklyn... Those neighborhoods were, in those years, dominated by mafia families. You knew it and you felt it, you know? "

Don Winslow

Kid

Brooklyn

Italy

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Horse

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" I think we need to rethink our ideas about what policing is and should be. I think we need to rethink our ideas about the criminal justice system as a whole, including the hysterically named corrections system. I mean, what's being corrected? Look, none of it's working. "

" 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

Trying

Attack

" 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. "

" 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. "

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Crime

" 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. "

" 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

Know

Morning

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" 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. "

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Looking

People

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