Don Winslow Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

“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 was a safari guide in the 1980s in Kenya.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”