Don Winslow
Don Winslow
Don Winslow is an American author most recognized for his crime and mystery novels. Many of his books are set in California. He has published a series of five novels that have a private investigator named Neal Carey as their main character. Savages has attracted critical acclaim, with the New York Times describing it as a "startling bid for attention"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth31 October 1953
CountryUnited States of America
hike miles morning six till work
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.
smart stupid people
Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart.
earth safe dangerous
And the most dangerous place on earth— Is where you’re safe.
peaceful conflict
I would prefer things to be peaceful and not have conflict.
people waste telling-the-truth
How much more money do we have to waste, how many more families have to be destroyed, how many more people have to be killed before you summon the courage to tell the truth to the American people?
spiritual emotional kind
There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery.
florida people surfing
I have to remind the people who put down East Coast surfing that Kelly Slater is from Florida.
mother real writing
I have sat with the mothers who have lost addicted sons. I have sat with families of kids who have been killed in drug-related gang violence. I have been to the prisons. I have seen the effects. At some point in time, I felt I had to do something other than write a novel about it, that I needed to try to make some sort of contribution, at least try to make some sort of difference in the real world.
morning insomnia wicked
I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem.
fun games who-i-am
I don't recognize myself. I don't know who I am anymore." And it's all fun and games until someone loses an I.
smart stupid people
Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart. Never. Ever. 'You can come down the evolutionary ladder,' Chon has observed to Ben and O; 'you can't climb up.
drunk population substance
Alcoholism, tobacco, drunk driving, these things will always be with us. There's always going to be a certain percentage of any population that is addicted to certain substances.
marijuana california orange
The Americans take a product that literally grows on trees and turn it into a valuable commodity. Without them, cocaine and marijuana would be like oranges, and instead of making billions smuggling it, I’d be making pennies doing stoop labor in some California field, picking it.
writing thinking average
A lot of times, writers are told write as big as you can, and that's not untrue. But at times I think it's better to write as small as you can, to start scenes with little personal details or people who are doing average every day human things. That, to me, lets the average reader into that person's life. "Yeah I eat breakfast. I take a shower."