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" 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
Dog
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" 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
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" Don't kid yourself: The justice system is a business. It's about money. "
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Business
Kid
" By any objective standard, Joaquin Guzman Loera is an evil man who has caused untold suffering for others. "
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" Police work in major cities - and New York is no exception - has always been vulnerable to corruption. Teddy Roosevelt built his career on it. "
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" 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
Me
Attack
" 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. "
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Deal
You
" 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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Joke
Lost
Used
" 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
Film
You
Look
" 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
Hotel
Bridge
Island
" So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book. "
Don Winslow
Write
Thought
Should
" I would prefer things to be peaceful and not have conflict. "
Don Winslow
Would
Things
Peaceful
" 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. "
Don Winslow
Faith
Challenges
God
" My earliest influence was Shakespeare - I read Shakespeare incessantly as a kid. "
Don Winslow
Read
Influence
Kid
" 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
Wall
Him
Looking
" 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
Island
Culture
Real
" 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
Up
Morning
" 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. "
Don Winslow
Need
Think
Ideas
" 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
You
Character
Page
" A great review is great. A bad review is the worst. "
Don Winslow
Bad
Review
Worst
" 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. "
Don Winslow
Society
Reflection
Police
" I have to remind the people who put down East Coast surfing that Kelly Slater is from Florida. "
Don Winslow
Put
Surfing
Who
" 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
Going
Back
Started
" My problem is not that there are too few ideas out there. It's that there are too many. "
Don Winslow
Ideas
Few
Many
" 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
See
Watch
" The novelist is the vestigial bone on the body cinema. We're like the little toe that can be cut off. "
Don Winslow
Bone
Body
Off
" A writer who doesn't need the money gains power and is dangerous in a negotiation. "
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Money
Writer
Power
" 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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City
Like
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" There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery. "
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Emotional
Economic
Spiritual
" I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem. "
Don Winslow
Work
Problem
Morning
" 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
Us
Looking
People