Mickey Spillane

If the public likes you, you're good.

— Mickey Spillane

I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.

— Mickey Spillane

My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all…

— Mickey Spillane

“A Commie. She was a jerky Red. She owned all the trimmings and she was still a Red. What the hell was…

— Mickey Spillane

“It was easy,' I said.”

— Mickey Spillane

Inspiration is an empty bank account.

— Mickey Spillane

Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they…

— Mickey Spillane

“I was a ruthless bastard with a twisted mind who could look on death and find it pleasant. I could break an…

— Mickey Spillane

Mike Hammer drinks beer because I can't spell Cognac.

— Mickey Spillane

The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle.

— Mickey Spillane

Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.

— Mickey Spillane

No one likes my books except the public.

— Mickey Spillane

I dont like any of them, because they don't read the books. In Kiss Me Deadly my story is better than his…

— Mickey Spillane

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

“God, but it was fun! It was the way I liked it. No arguing, no talking to the stupid peasants. I just…

— Mickey Spillane

Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.

— Mickey Spillane

I'm the most translated writer in the world, behind Lenin, Tolstoy, Gorki and Jules Verne. And they're all dead.

— Mickey Spillane

I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway,…

— Mickey Spillane

If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.

— Mickey Spillane

Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who…

— Mickey Spillane

Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo.

— Mickey Spillane

“He was staring at my face. His eyes couldn't leave my eyes and his flesh was already dying with the fear inside…

— Mickey Spillane

Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.

— Mickey Spillane

“Pretty and beautiful are two different things. Only a few women are pretty, but even one who's not so hot to look…

— Mickey Spillane

Imagine this guy hits Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger and knocks him out. You hit Mike Hammer over…

— Mickey Spillane