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I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it. — Mickey Spillane

I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger. — Mickey Spillane

The first page sells this book. The last page sells your next book. — Mickey Spillane

Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer. — Mickey Spillane

I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien. — Mickey Spillane

The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book. — Mickey Spillane

If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day. — Mickey Spillane

Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney. — Mickey Spillane

I'm actually a softie. Tough guys get killed too early ... I've got a full head of hair and don't wear eyeglasses. — Mickey Spillane

It was easy,' I said. — Mickey Spillane

Nobody reads a book to get to the middle. — Mickey Spillane

I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book. — Mickey Spillane

I have no fans. You know what I got? Customers. And customers are your friends. — Mickey Spillane

Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar. — Mickey Spillane

True greatness demands humility; the journey draws it from your struggling soul. — Richelle E. Goodrich

My voice is soft, but oh, my heart roars! — Dave Matthews

Mike Hammer drinks beer because I can't spell Cognac. — Mickey Spillane

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo. — Mickey Spillane

If the public likes you, you're good. — Mickey Spillane

Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture. — Mickey Spillane

I had gotten a taste for death and found it palatable to the extent that I could never again eat the fruits of a normal civilization. — Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins

When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith. — Richard Morris

We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage. — Robert Breault

Inspiration is an empty bank account. — Mickey Spillane

I try to stay in good physical shape, I don't smoke, I don't drink. — Mickey Spillane

Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am. — Mickey Spillane

Critics themselves, they used to tear me up. — Mickey Spillane

All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little. — Lafcadio Hearn

Guys like you can't escape the city. Hell, you a got a blood contract with this place. You're married to the old girl. — Mickey Spillane

I'm the most translated writer in the world, behind Lenin, Tolstoy, Gorki and Jules Verne. And they're all dead ... — Mickey Spillane

The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art. — Ernest Becker

I read all the time ... I read a lot of history books. — Mickey Spillane

No one likes my books except the public. — Mickey Spillane