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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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"I am chic, sleek, and so unique."
"It's not my accent, but my brevity makes me stylish."
"We're supposed to speak from the heart in what we wear. We have to find capsule wardrobes."
"Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface."
"Coco Chanel used to talk about wearing more than one string of pearls. Why wear one if you can wear two, or something to that effect. I think that one string of pearls is just fine. But that's because my pearls are black, hers were white."
"A change in hairstyle gives a new look."
"When a girl feels that she's perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That's charm."
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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."
"I would certainly never suggest that any lesbian should be ashamed of her sexual preference."
"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."
"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 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 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 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."
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