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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

We need leaders who can reflect theologically and help develop more robust thinking that understands how context affects our understanding of God, humankind, the fall, and redemption.

If you follow, practice and live ‘Ownership’, you have arrived in Life

He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.

Verily, God hath eighteen thousand worlds; and verily, your world is one of them, and this its bright axle-tree.

I really wanted a wonderful, traditional home for my kid.

I was always that girl growing up who you could find dancing down supermarket aisles. It's that sense of not feeling inhibited. Dancing in supermarkets is my favorite thing.

I think I've had a very privileged life.

I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that's just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort.

The greatest human achievements have never been for profit.

Common knowledge, but important nonetheless

We can meet our destiny, and that destiny to build a land here that will be, for all mankind, a shining city on a hill.