Mickey Spillane Quotes

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• I'm a country boy. I hate New York. But that's where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough…
• If I need something, I'll invent it.
• If the public likes you, you're good.
• If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older…
• 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…
• 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... but…
• 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 anymore.…
• Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.
• Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer.

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