Mcbain Quotes & Sayings

McKinty is an exciting new talent. — Ed McBain

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

The body lay outside an abandoned, boarded-up theater. The theater had started as a first-run movie house, many years back when the neighborhood had still been fashionable. As the neighborhood began rotting, the theater began showing second-run films, and then old movies, and finally foreign-language films. — Ed McBain

I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain. — Maeve Binchy

What if I'm just a sick animal? A creature shuffled into existence here by the random whims of evolution. Nothing more. An existence totally without inherent meaning, totally without purpose. What — Tim McBain

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

So, here I am. Awake in the dark , twisting the knife in my wounds. What a goddamn delight life really is. — Tim McBain

I would not regret putting a hole in your arrogant chest, only it would be deflected when it hit that piece of rock you call a heart. — Laurie McBain

Any new corpses today?"
"None yet."
"Pity. I'm getting so I miss my morning coffee and corpse. — Ed McBain