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
peaceful conflict
I would prefer things to be peaceful and not have conflict.
earth safe dangerous
And the most dangerous place on earth— Is where you’re safe.
smart stupid people
Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart.
beach culture eventually grew lived since surf town
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.
jeopardy
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.
cut novelist toe
The novelist is the vestigial bone on the body cinema. We're like the little toe that can be cut off.
I was a safari guide in the 1980s in Kenya.
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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.
morning
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.
course separates
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.
pages
So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book.
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.
As a surfer, I think of places like a wave: you see one thing on the surface. But you always know there's something different going on underneath.
bad great
A great review is great. A bad review is the worst.