Quotes by Evan Hunter - Page 1

I've never been a cop nor hope to be a cop, thanks.
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Cop
Thanks
Nor
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Changing writing styles is like an actor taking on a different part.
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Changing
Styles
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Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?
Evan Hunter /
Readers
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A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.
Evan Hunter /
Forms
Detective
Sees
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You just touch on things. You don't go round the room describing the furniture.
Evan Hunter /
Describing
Furniture
Round
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I would certainly never suggest that any lesbian should be ashamed of her sexual preference.
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Ashamed
Preference
Sexual
Lesbian
Suggest
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It's a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different.
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Hunter
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I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.
Evan Hunter /
Agree
Print
Publishers
In Print
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Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me.
Evan Hunter /
Editor
Magazine
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I think of myself as a softy. I think the 87th Precinct novels are very sentimental, and the cops are idealistic guys.
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Idealistic
Sentimental
Cops
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My first wife kept calling me Sal, and I finally said to her, 'Why do you think I changed my name, honey? I really didn't like the old name.'
Evan Hunter /
Honey
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It's hard to write an Evan Hunter novel because I really am starting from scratch. I'm assuming a new voice each time. The McBain voice is set.
Evan Hunter /
Assuming
Each Time
Scratch
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It seemed to me... that the only valid people to deal with crime were cops, and I would like to make the lead character, rather than a single person, a squad of cops.
Evan Hunter /
Crime
Single
Single Person
Squad
Character Me People
Cops
Deal
Lead Character
Seemed
Valid
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I know that all cops are not sterling characters. But you have to have someone to root for. I balance it with rotten cops who will take a bribe, who will beat somebody up.
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Balance
Bribe
Rotten
Sterling
Will Know Someone
Beat
Cops
Root
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Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form one to the other, it's as if another writer is on the scene.
Evan Hunter /
Scene
Depending
Desk
Entirely
Mindsets
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I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot.
Evan Hunter /
Navy
Painter
Sea
Began
Draw
Studying
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I was a blond-haired kid with blue eyes, growing up in an Italian ghetto. I had a very high IQ. In elementary school, I skipped ahead twice. I was 10 years old when everyone else was 12.
Evan Hunter /
Blue
Blue Eyes
Elementary School
Ghetto
Elementary
Everyone Else
Iq
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I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.
Evan Hunter /
Broadway
Modest
Musical
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Prize
Aside
Award
Pulitzer
Tony
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I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?
Evan Hunter /
Bother
Covered
Headlines
Not Good Enough
Real Story
Good Enough Feel
Never Take
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I have a book coming out in September, for example, where the plot concerns counterfeiting, and I had to do a lot of research on that. Or on any legal matters, for example, I have to do a lot of research online.
Evan Hunter /
Legal
Example
Online
Plot
Research
September
Concerns
Matters
For Example
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When I started writing, most of the police department in New York City, especially above the rank of detective, were Irish, Irish-American. I thought it would be more interesting... to use the actual ethnic background in New York City at the time.
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Department
Ethnic Background
New York City
Police Department
Detective
Ethnic
Rank
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I only knew one thing about policemen: they were inhuman beasts. The problem was how to turn them into likable, sympathetic human beings. The answer was simple. Give them head colds. And first names. And keep their dialogue homey and conversational.
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Dialogue
Inhuman
Policemen
Sympathetic
Beasts
Conversational
Homey
Likable
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I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me.
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Paid
Work Me Sometimes
Began
Cent
Work Me Living
Earn
Editor
Magazine
Quarter
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I enjoy what I do every minute of the day, even when the going gets tough. When I first began writing, I used to work at a desk in the bedroom, of a small development house. My three sons all under the age of 3 would come running in and out of the room every minute.
Evan Hunter /
Bedroom
Development
Desk
Minute
Sons
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