"The first chapter sells the book; the last……" — Mickey Spillane
"The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book."
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Mickey Spillane
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29 Quotes by Mickey Spillane
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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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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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Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.
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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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