All Mickey Spillane Quotes
- Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo. Get Past
- 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… Dead
- The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book. Book
- Nobody reads a book to get to the middle. Book
- 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… All
- Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney. Authors
- Critics themselves, they used to tear me up. Critics
- I read all the time... I read a lot of history books. All
- I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger. Comic
- 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… America
- Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture. Bad
- Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar. Big
- 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… All
- 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… Anthony
- I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it. Awful
- I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien. Beatty
- 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… Comics
- I try to stay in good physical shape, I don't smoke, I don't drink. 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… Avenue
- I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book. Author