Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar. — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
I'm the most translated writer in the world, behind Lenin, Tolstoy, Gorki and Jules Verne. And they're all dead. — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who… — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's… — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer. — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book. — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book. — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am. Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep… — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names...… — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
“A Commie. She was a jerky Red. She owned all the trimmings and she was still a Red. What the hell was she hoping… — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy… — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
“I was a ruthless bastard with a twisted mind who could look on death and find it pleasant. I could break an arm or… — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle. — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
