Mickey Spillane Quotes

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• Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo.
• See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I…
• The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.
• Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.
• I don't like people. I don't like any kind of people. When you get them together in a big lump they all get nasty and…
• Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.
• Critics themselves, they used to tear me up.
• I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.
• I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger.
• 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…
• Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture.
• Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.
• Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at…
• I dont like any of them, because they don't read the books. In Kiss Me Deadly my story is better than his story. Anthony Quinn…
• I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.
• I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien.
• I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went…
• I try to stay in good physical shape, I don't smoke, I don't drink.
• I'm 82 years old, wherever I go everybody knows me, but here's why... I'm a merchandiser, I'm not just a writer, I stay in every…
• I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.

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