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" I used to joke that my next book would be about puppies that have lost a chew toy, and everywhere they went, people were nice and gave them things until they found the chew toy. "

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" 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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Police departments are always a reflection of the society that they serve. Is there such a thing as 'police culture?' Absolutely. Is that culture isolated form the surrounding society? Absolutely not. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

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" 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

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Crime

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

" 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. "

" 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

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People

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" By any objective standard, Joaquin Guzman Loera is an evil man who has caused untold suffering for others. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Police work in major cities - and New York is no exception - has always been vulnerable to corruption. Teddy Roosevelt built his career on it. "

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

" As someone who has researched and written about the Mexican cartels and the futile 'war on drugs' for coming on twenty years, I know how tough a subject it is. Mind-bending, soul-warping, heartbreaking, it challenges your intellect, your beliefs, your faith in humanity and God. "