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" 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. "

Don Winslow

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Deal

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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. "

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" 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. "

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

" Don't kid yourself: The justice system is a business. It's about money. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My earliest influence was Shakespeare - I read Shakespeare incessantly as a kid. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The tragedy is that the police and inner city communities should be allies. Who suffers most from violent crime in America? Inner city communities. Who has a personal and professional interest in lowering that violence? Cops. "

" 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. "

" 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. "