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...

It's a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different.

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

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.

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

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 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 try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.

I enjoy what I do every minute of the day, even when the going gets tough. When I first began writing, I used to work at a desk in the bedroom, of a small development house. My three sons all under...