Ed McBain Quotes

• 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.

  Ed McBain

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  Tags in Broadway, Music

• 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?

  Ed McBain

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  Tags in Self, Story

• 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.

  Ed McBain

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  Tags in Myself

• 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.

  Ed McBain

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  Tags in People, Crime

• 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.

  Ed McBain

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  Tags in Self, Research

• I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don’t agree with me as to their worth.

  Ed McBain

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  Tags in Novels

• A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.

  Ed McBain

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Detective

• 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.

  Ed McBain

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  Tags in Self, Working

• I would certainly never suggest that any lesbian should be ashamed of her s*xual preference.

  Ed McBain

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  Tags in Lesbian

• I’ve never been a cop nor hope to be a cop, thanks.

  Ed McBain

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  Tags in Self

• It’s a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different.

  Ed McBain

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  Tags in Person, Style

• Readers are what it’s all about, aren’t they? If not, why am I writing?

  Ed McBain

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  Tags in Readers

• 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.

  Ed McBain

• 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.

  Ed McBain

Ed McBain (14)

Birth:	15th October, 1926
Death:	6th July, 2005
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Screenwriter

About

Ed McBain was an American author and screenwriter. Born Salvatore Albert Lombino, he legally adopted the name Evan Hunter in 1952. While successful and well known as Evan Hunter, he was even better known as Ed McBain, a name he used for most of his crime fiction, beginning in 1956.

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