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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."
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"To be worthy of recognition, be humble."
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"Not to recognize God is to oppose the kingdom of love."
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"An applause is not just the recognition of good performance, but its proof of being different than the crowd."
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"Lord Bacchus, do you remember me? I helped you with that missing leopard in Sonoma." Bacchus scratched his stubbly chin. "Ah... yes. John Green." "Jason Grace.""Whatever," the god said."
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"I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it."
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"She deserved at least one person who saw her and knew how good she was."
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"Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?"
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"Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by applause."
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"The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post."
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"Don't worry about getting credit, do the work anyway."
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"I've never been a cop nor hope to be a cop, thanks."
Hope
"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."
Change
"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."
Art
"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."
Work
"I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth."
Worth
"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."
Legal
"Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?"
Writing
"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."
Recognition
"I would certainly never suggest that any lesbian should be ashamed of her sexual preference."
Acceptance
"It's a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different."
Style
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