Edward D. Hoch > Quotes

“dreamy instrumental of an old song called Dancing On The Ceiling. The party was breaking up now,”
― Edward D. Hoch, City of Brass: And Other Simon Ark Stories

“Birlstone is an unusual name, and I wonder why our author would have chosen it as a pseudonym, or if it really is a pseudonym.”
― Edward D. Hoch, The Sherlock Holmes Stories of Edward D. Hoch

“Earl Jazine had boarded the craft at Guaymas for the trip across, rising before”
― Edward D. Hoch, The Frankenstein Factory

“found these things in Heuvelman’s book, In the Wake of the Sea-Serpents, and I suppose some similar account might have given Pike the whole idea”
― Edward D. Hoch, The Thefts of Nick Velvet: Stories

“What I am suggesting, after all, is no more than Major Batjuschin suggested to Captain Redl in 1902.” This brought a smile from Rand. “You mean Captain Redl, the archtraitor?”
― Edward D. Hoch, The Spy Who Read Latin: And Other Stories: A Jeffery Rand Collection

“She stood with her legs slightly apart, tightening the shimmery fabric of her floor-length formal. It was an appealing pose to Barney, giving just a hint of tomboyishness within the confines of the gown.”
― Edward D. Hoch, The Shattered Raven: A Novel

“Strictly as a thief, Nick Velvet is today’s heir apparent to the crown worn by such Napoleons of knavery as Grant Allen’s illustrious Colonel Clay (1897), E. W. Homung’s cricketer-cracksman A. J. Raffles (1899), O. Henry’s gentle Jeff Peters (1908), George Randolph Chester’s get-rich-quick Wallingford (1908), Frederick Irving Anderson’s infallible Godahl (1914) and notorious Sophie Lang (1925), Edgar Wallace’s forthright Four Square Jane (1929), Leslie Charteris’ saintly Simon Templar (1933), and Roy Vickers’ ethereal Fidelity Dove (1935).”
― Edward D. Hoch, The Spy and the Thief

“It was like marble or quartz, but cut through to show the layers of black and white, with sometimes just a hint of red or brown. “What’s this edge made of?” “Onyx. My first big play on Broadway was The Onyx Ring. The pool is one of my few luxuries.”
― Edward D. Hoch, The Spy and the Thief

“He unrolled the paper and revealed a message, apparently in cipher: PMION CTRAD INGCA YDWEA LARTO IROAR RORSS EWERC EAAIR AKCCR EOVER BASES.”
― Edward D. Hoch, Old Spies Club

“It was eight years since publication of The Riddle of the Sands, but people still read it. “Do you fear war too?”
― Edward D. Hoch, The Sherlock Holmes Stories of Edward D. Hoch

“Maddened by Mystery.”
― Edward D. Hoch, The Sherlock Holmes Stories of Edward D. Hoch

“I always thought it was a myth about electric eels having enough of a charge to kill someone.” “It’s no myth. I’ve studied up on it for this assignment. The electrophorus electricus grows to a length of eight or ten feet, and weighs perhaps as much as ninety pounds.”
― Edward D. Hoch, The Spy and the Thief

“She considered that for a moment. “There’s Professor Stephen Leacock. He’s a lecturer at McGill and he’s published some”
― Edward D. Hoch, The Sherlock Holmes Stories of Edward D. Hoch

“Actually I’d never planned a career in publishing, preferring the world of art.  There was always a sketch pad handy, though I soon learned that I was best with caricatures.  There was hardly a market for those unless one was a political cartoonist, an all-male world if there ever was one.  So it was publishing for me, at least for the time being.”
― Edward D. Hoch, The Velvet Touch

“invasion titled The Riddle of the Sands. It became his most successful novel.”
― Edward D. Hoch, The Sherlock Holmes Stories of Edward D. Hoch

“by John Updike; he, intent on a paperbound anthology of science fiction stories edited by Hans Stefan Santesson.”
― Edward D. Hoch, The Shattered Raven: A Novel

“They talked for a time longer and Sine took him on a brief tour of the plant, past assembly lines where dungareed girls operating wire-wrap machines worked on computer circuits, the company’s major product.”
― Edward D. Hoch, The Spy and the Thief

“The Bootmakers of Toronto, copyright © 2006 by Edward D. Hoch.”
― Edward D. Hoch, The Sherlock Holmes Stories of Edward D. Hoch

“Hans Stefan Santesson’s science fiction-mystery anthology Crime Prevention in the 30th Century”
― Edward D. Hoch, The Night My Friend: Stories of Crime and Suspense

“Comte de Saint-Germain”
― Edward D. Hoch, City of Brass: And Other Simon Ark Stories

“June, Nebraska,”
― Edward D. Hoch, The Shattered Raven: A Novel