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Mickey Spillane Quotes
Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney. - Mickey Spillane Quotes
But at my age, you start to get tired. - Mickey Spillane Quotes
Critics themselves, they used to tear me up. - Mickey Spillane Quotes
Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didnt. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt. - Mickey Spillane Quotes
I dont like any of them, because they dont read the books. In Kiss Me Deadly my story is better than his story. Anthony Quinn played in The Lond Wait and he didnt read the book either. - Mickey Spillane Quotes
I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I cant understand it. - Mickey Spillane Quotes
I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat OBrien. - Mickey Spillane Quotes
I read all the time... I read a lot of history books. - Mickey Spillane Quotes
I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didnt use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics. - Mickey Spillane Quotes
I try to stay in good physical shape, I dont smoke, I dont drink. - Mickey Spillane Quotes
I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger. - Mickey Spillane Quotes
Im 82 years old, wherever I go everybody knows me, but heres why... Im a merchandiser, Im not just a writer, I stay in every avenue you can think of. - Mickey Spillane Quotes
Im a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book. - Mickey Spillane Quotes
Im a country boy. I hate New York. But thats where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough about it. But I have to keep going back there. - Mickey Spillane Quotes
If I need something, Ill invent it. - Mickey Spillane Quotes
If the public likes you, youre good. - Mickey Spillane Quotes
If the public likes you, youre good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day. - Mickey Spillane Quotes
If youre a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if hes good, the older he gets, the better he writes. - Mickey Spillane Quotes
Imagine this guy hits Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger and knocks him out. You hit Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger, hell beat the crap out of you. - Mickey Spillane Quotes
My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so Ive got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick. - Mickey Spillane Quotes
Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If its a letdown, they wont buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book. - Mickey Spillane Quotes
Now Im not an author, Im a writer, thats all I am. - Mickey Spillane Quotes
Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics. - Mickey Spillane Quotes
See, heroes never die. John Wayne isnt dead, Elvis isnt dead. Otherwise you dont have a hero. You cant kill a hero. Thats why I never let him get older. - Mickey Spillane Quotes
Stephen King. Now Im not crazy about him, but hes a great a writer. - Mickey Spillane Quotes
Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture. - Mickey Spillane Quotes
When I started the paperback market, there were only a few good writers, now the markets loaded... you dont know which one to take. - Mickey Spillane Quotes
Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didnt get past Hugo. - Mickey Spillane Quotes
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