American - Author | October 31, 1953 -
So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book.
Don Winslow
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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.
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The novelist is the vestigial bone on the body cinema. We're like the little toe that can be cut off.
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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.
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I get started at 5:30 in the morning and write till 10 A.M. Then I hike six or seven miles before going back to work.
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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.
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A great review is great. A bad review is the worst.
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I was trying in 'The Power of the Dog' to write a brutally accurate in-your-face, if you will, description of 30 years in the war on drugs. And the effect that that had on people.
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I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem.
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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.
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I would prefer things to be peaceful and not have conflict.
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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.
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