Books Quote by Mickey Spillane

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 the smoke…

— Mickey Spillane

“Smoke poured from every chimney, for the day was cold. The thought of all those coal-grates and wood-stoves made me wary of fire, for…

— Robert Charles Wilson

...it is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their brain, they…

— Anonymous

Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south? Oh let me remember you as you were before you…

— Pablo Neruda

“I am a chimney which has been smoked. Out of breath and out of warmth. My air carries murky whispers and inky phantoms. Loneliness…

— Iqra Iqbal

“What makes an author write under a different name ? Well, some may actually be criminals on the run, looking to make a bit…

— Rotimi Ogunjobi

It's one of the reasons I became a writer, to be able to smoke in peace.

— Susanna Kaysen

“And if publishers are too skittish to bite—sell it as goddamn fiction. Make yourself the author and change the names if necessary. Do whatever…

— Joshua V. Scher

My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if…

— John Mellencamp

“So Walter Arensberg, Alfred Kreymborg, Carl Sandburg, Louis Untermeyer, Eunice Tietjens, Clara Shanafelt, James Oppenheim, Maxwell Bodenheim, Richard Glaenzer, Scharmel Iris, Conrad Aiken, I…

— Francis Scott Fitzgerald

If I ended up having a big name, I'm still going to keep that fire because that's what just drives the great ones.

— Mike Daniels

“People often lose their names. Names fall into holes or get eaten by wild animals. Sometimes they’re carried away by the wind.”

— Eliza Granville