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Top 20 Ed McBain Quotes (2025 Update)

Ed McBain Quote: “The world is made of stairs, and there are those who go up and those who go down.”

1. “The world is made of stairs, and there are those who go up and those who go down.”

Ed McBain Quote: “Changing writing styles is like an actor taking on a different part.”

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

Ed McBain Quote: “Readers are what it’s all about, aren’t they? If not, why am I writing?”

3. “Readers are what it’s all about, aren’t they? If not, why am I writing?”

Ed McBain Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

Ed McBain Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

Ed McBain Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

Ed McBain Quote: “Its a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different.”

7. “Its a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different.”

Ed McBain Quote: “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?”

8. “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?”

Ed McBain Quote: “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 the age of 3 would come running in and out of the room every minute.”

9. “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 the age of 3 would come running in and out of the room every minute.”

Ed McBain Quote: “I would certainly never suggest that any lesbian should be ashamed of her sexual preference.”

10. “I would certainly never suggest that any lesbian should be ashamed of her sexual preference.”

Ed McBain Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

Ed McBain Quote: “A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.”

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

Ed McBain Quote: “McKinty is an exciting new talent.”

13. “McKinty is an exciting new talent.”

Ed McBain Quote: “I’ve never been a cop nor hope to be a cop, thanks.”

14. “I’ve never been a cop nor hope to be a cop, thanks.”

Ed McBain Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

Ed McBain Quote: “I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don’t agree with me as to their worth.”

16. “I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don’t agree with me as to their worth.”

Ed McBain Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

Ed McBain Quote: “We got enough champagne here to start a France.”

18. “We got enough champagne here to start a France.”

Ed McBain Quote: “Drugs and stealing go together like bagels and lox.”

19. “Drugs and stealing go together like bagels and lox.”

Ed McBain Quote: “But The Preacher operated on the theory that if you told a big enough lie often enough, people would accept it as the truth.”

20. “But The Preacher operated on the theory that if you told a big enough lie often enough, people would accept it as the truth.”

Ed McBain Quote: “Long before any genius producer began singing the blues on an imaginary hill in an unnamed city where a mix of a dozen or so cops came and went in what was known to script writers as “the usual squadroom boil,” Cop Hater set the tone and the pattern for a police series in which – so far as I was concerned – there were no restrictions on content or style.”

21. “Long before any genius producer began singing the blues on an imaginary hill in an unnamed city where a mix of a dozen or so cops came and went in what was known to script writers as “the usual squadroom boil,” Cop Hater set the tone and the pattern for a police series in which – so far as I was concerned – there were no restrictions on content or style.”

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