Don Winslow Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• A lot of times, writers are told write as big as you can, and that's not untrue. But at times I think it's better to write as small as you can, to start scenes with little personal details or people who are doing average every day human things. That, to me, lets the average reader into that person's life. "Yeah I eat breakfast. I take a shower."

  Don Winslow

  Writing, Thinking, Average

  "Don Winslow on his amazing new book ‘The Cartel’ and America’s drug war". Interview with Drew Mcweeny, uproxx.com. July 01, 2015.

• I have sat with the mothers who have lost addicted sons. I have sat with families of kids who have been killed in drug-related gang violence. I have been to the prisons. I have seen the effects. At some point in time, I felt I had to do something other than write a novel about it, that I needed to try to make some sort of contribution, at least try to make some sort of difference in the real world.

  Don Winslow

  Mother, Real, Kids

  "Crime novelist of ‘The Cartel’ calls for end to war on drugs". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. July 16, 2015.

• I've been writing since I was six years old. It's hard to imagine stopping. I would hate to think that I've already written my best book.

  Don Winslow

  Hate, Book, Writing

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• Shane Salerno and I adapted my book Savages together, and I learned a lot about adaptation. I think it's an extremely difficult thing to do; adaptation might even be more difficult than writing an original screenplay. It's so much a matter of choices, making choices of what to leave in. It was an education.

  Don Winslow

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• I never think about a movie when I'm writing a book, because I think only two things could happen and both of them are bad. You write a lousy novel and a lousy film.

  Don Winslow

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "Don Winslow on his amazing new book ‘The Cartel’ and America’s drug war". Interview with Drew Mcweeny, uproxx.com. July 01, 2015.

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