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.
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.
ambition character heart
It's important to me that the reader goes on a ride with the characters, that you set context enough to know, "Okay, here's where we are in the world. Now we're just going to go inside this person's head, this guy's heart, this woman's ambitions and take it down to very, very small scale."
accurate brutally effect power trying war
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.
bad great
A great review is great. A bad review is the worst.
books gets jump problem producing time
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.