162 Quotes by Don Winslow

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.

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

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.

A writer who doesn't need the money gains power and is dangerous in a negotiation.

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.

We have contradictory expectations of police: We want to be perfectly safe and perfectly free. We want total security and total privacy. We want the bad guys stopped and the good guys unmolested. That's great for the consumer; try providing it.

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

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.