Mickey Spillane Quotes

• There are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.

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• Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it’s a letdown, they won’t buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.

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  The first chapter sells the book. The last chapter sells the next book.

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• I don’t read fiction at all.

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• Acting is acting.

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

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• Stephen King. Now I’m not crazy about him, but he’s a great a writer.

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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 a hero. That’s why I never let him get older.

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• Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.

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• Now I’m not an author, I’m a writer, that’s all I am.

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• My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I’ve got all these names… but my Dad always called me Mick.

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• Imagine this guy hits Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger and knocks him out. You hit Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger, he’ll beat the crap out of you.

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• If you’re a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he’s good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

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• If the public likes you, you’re good.

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• If I need something, I’ll invent it.

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• I’m a country boy. I hate New York. But that’s where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough about it. But I have to keep going back there.

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• I’m a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.

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• I’m 82 years old, wherever I go everybody knows me, but here’s why… I’m a merchandiser, I’m not just a writer, I stay in every avenue you can think of.

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• I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger.

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Mickey Spillane (28)

Birth:	9th March, 1918
Death:	17th July, 2006
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist

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