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I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem.

There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery.

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.

The bridge to Coronado Island off San Diego was built because the mob had a hotel there and needed a way to get people out there.

I have to remind the people who put down East Coast surfing that Kelly Slater is from Florida.

My problem is not that there are too few ideas out there. It's that there are too many.

So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book.

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.

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.

A great review is great. A bad review is the worst.

Don Winslow