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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
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
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
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