"Authors want their names down in history; I……" — Mickey Spillane
"Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney."
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29 Quotes by Mickey Spillane
Mickey Spillane has 29 quotes on this site.
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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.
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See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill…
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The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.
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Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.
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I don't like people. I don't like any kind of people. When you get them together in a big lump…
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Critics themselves, they used to tear me up.
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I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.
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I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger.
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Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan…
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Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture.
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Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.
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Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents,…
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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to…
— Francis Bacon
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of…
— Joseph Addison
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
— John Berger
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Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't…
— Alain de Botton
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Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's…
— Nick Cave
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There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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We must be authors of the history of our age.
— Madeleine Albright
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among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading…
— Joseph Addison
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Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends…
— Richard Bach
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The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom…
— Albert Camus
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Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author…
— Stephen Vizinczey
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