162 Quotes by Don Winslow

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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'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.