Don Winslow Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 31, 1953

Topics

CharacterWritingYouPageWell

Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at me to do my old act, and getting actually violent and angry at me.

Jim Carrey

MyselfAngryPeopleMeDoingTrying

It feels so good to be able to be part of an action flick like 'The Raid' and to read the rave reviews in a number of film festivals.

Joe Taslim

GoodActionFestivalsFilmAble

Not wearing hijab has seriously, seriously hurt my career. Mass media wants to see a woman in a veil. But I think it helps me because it makes it easier for my audience to relate to me. I'm not the scary 'other' they keep seeing on 'Fox News.'

Maysoon Zayid

WomanMeThinkHurtMediaCareer

I didn't want to admit that I was falling into a cliche.

Jeff Tweedy

AdmitWantFallingCliche

I'm basically drawn to defeated, injured, hurt, barely walking characters.

Steven Shainberg

HurtWalkingDefeatedCharacters

It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always evolving, society.

Sonia Sotomayor

JusticeResponsibilitySocietyAlways

If I have to be considered any type of jazz artist, it would be New Orleans jazz because New Orleans jazz never forgot that jazz is dance music and jazz is fun. I'm more influenced by that style of jazz than anything else.

Trombone Shorty

MusicStyleDanceFunArtistJazz

George Washington sets the nation on its democratic path. Abraham Lincoln preserves it. Franklin Roosevelt sees the nation through depression and war.

Robert Dallek

PathDepressionWarWashington

Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum physics to anthropology.

Micky Dolenz

PhysicsKidEverythingQuantumEver

Competition is an easy way to get into flow.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

CompetitionEasyFlowWayEasy Way

I like to do weird things in the shower, like drink my coffee, brush my teeth and drink a smoothie. It's good time management.

Michelle Williams

GoodTimeCoffeeManagementWeird

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

Mick Jagger

BusinessMyselfCreativeArtistKnow

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