32 Quotes by Evan Hunter

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.

My first wife kept calling me Sal, and I finally said to her, 'Why do you think I changed my name, honey? I really didn't like the old name.'

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.

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.

Changing writing styles is like an actor taking on a different part.

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

I think of myself as a softy. I think the 87th Precinct novels are very sentimental, and the cops are idealistic guys.

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

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