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Don Winslow

American Author

Born: Oct 31, 1953

About Get People Police Think You

Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar

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. Don Winslow

Justice Think Criminal Our Criminal Justice Criminal Justice System Corrected Corrections System About Rethink Named Ideas Look Policing None Being Mean Should Working Whole Including Need

When you criminalize something, only criminals can deal with it. When criminals deal with it, there's no recourse to law, so there's only recourse to violence. Don Winslow

You Law Criminalize Criminals Something Only Recourse Deal Violence

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. Don Winslow

Character You Writing Thriller Mortal Well Page Your Jeopardy

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. Don Winslow

Morning You Grateful Books Write Sincerely Know Up Get Mean

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

Cinema Bone Like Off Little Cut Toe Body Novelist

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. Don Winslow

Culture Kid Beach Point Since Town Around Island Surf Real Been Up Grew Rhode Rhode Island Then Lived Eventually

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. Don Winslow

Police departments are always a reflection of the society that they serve. Is there such a thing as 'police culture?' Absolutely. Is that culture isolated form the surrounding society? Absolutely not. Don Winslow

Culture Police Reflection Society Absolutely Absolutely Not Always Isolated Surrounding Departments Form Such A Thing Serve Thing

I lived in mafia neighborhoods off and on when I was a kid. If you were in Little Italy, in East Harlem, in Brooklyn... Those neighborhoods were, in those years, dominated by mafia families. You knew it and you felt it, you know? Don Winslow

You Kid Those Neighborhoods East Brooklyn Mafia Knew Know Felt Were Years Italy Off Dominated Families Little Lived Harlem

For a while, many years ago, my job was to get mugged. My job was to walk around Times Square trying to get a mugger to attack me so that someone else could come in and arrest the mugger. Don Winslow

It's funny because I think that genre literature can be looked down on by literature literature. And I like that! I like being scorned; I like people looking down their noses at us a little bit... It gives us a little chip on our shoulder. Don Winslow

My earliest influence was Shakespeare - I read Shakespeare incessantly as a kid. Don Winslow

Kid Shakespeare Read Influence Incessantly Earliest

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

Money Dangerous Power Negotiation Writer Gains Who Need

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