Evan Hunter Quotes & Sayings
16 most famous Evan Hunter quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American author who passed away on 6 July, 2005.
“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.”
“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?”
“I would certainly never suggest that any lesbian should be ashamed of her sexual preference.”
“Changing writing styles is like an actor taking on a different part.”
“It's a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?”
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