"I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize.……" — Ed McBain
"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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19 Quotes by Ed McBain
Ed McBain has 19 quotes on this site.
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The world is made of stairs, and there are those who go up and those who go down.
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A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.
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I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for…
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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…
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I have a book coming out in September, for example, where the plot concerns counterfeiting, and I had to do…
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I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that…
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I enjoy what I do every minute of the day, even when the going gets tough. When I first began…
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I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.
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I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went…
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I would certainly never suggest that any lesbian should be ashamed of her sexual preference.
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I've never been a cop nor hope to be a cop, thanks.
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It seemed to me... that the only valid people to deal with crime were cops, and I would like to…
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