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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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"The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style."
"As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism."
"Have the nature of a dervish: then wear a stylish cap."
"I am chic, sleek, and so unique."
"My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style."
"When I go out to eat, it's usually something moderate in style."
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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."
"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 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."
"I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth."
"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."
"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 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?"
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