Mickey Spillane quotes
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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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“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 a hero. That's why I never let him get older.”
-- Mickey SpillaneSource : Interview with Michael Carlson, "Crime Time", crimetime.co.uk, 2001.
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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 they all get nasty and dirty and full of trouble. So I don't like people including you. That's what a misanthropist is.”
-- Mickey SpillaneSource : Mickey Spillane (1968). “The Big Kill”, p.7, Penguin
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“Mike Hammer drinks beer because I can't spell Cognac.”
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“Those big-shot writers ... could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.”
-- Mickey SpillaneSource : "The Making of a Bestseller: From Author to Reader" by Arthur T. Vanderbilt, (p. 135), 1999.
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“I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am. Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.”
-- Mickey SpillaneSource : Interview with Michael Carlson, Crime Time, 2001.
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“I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.”
-- Mickey SpillaneSource : "Writers on Writing". Book by Jon Winokur, 1986.
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“I have no fans. You know what I got? Customers. And customers are your friends.”
-- Mickey SpillaneSource : "W.O.W. : Writers on Writing". Book by Jon Winokur, 1986.
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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, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt.”
-- Mickey SpillaneSource : Interview with Michael Carlson, "Crime Time", 2001.
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“If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.”
-- Mickey SpillaneSource : Mickey Spillane (2001). “The Mike Hammer Collection”, p.520, Penguin
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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.”
-- Mickey SpillaneSource : "W.O.W. : Writers on Writing". Interview with Jon Winokur, 1986.
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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.”
-- Mickey SpillaneSource : "Writers on writing". Book by Jon Winokur, 1986.
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“No one likes my books except the public.”
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“The first page sells this book. The last page sells your next book.”
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“If I need something, I'll invent it.”
-- Mickey SpillaneSource : Interview with Michael Carlson, Crime Time, 2001.
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“I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics.”
-- Mickey SpillaneSource : Interview with Michael Carlson, Crime Time, 2001.
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“I'm the most translated writer in the world, behind Lenin, Tolstoy, Gorki and Jules Verne. And they're all dead.”
-- Mickey SpillaneSource : "Spillane Dead at 88" by WENN, www.imdb.com. July 18, 2006.
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“I dont like any of them, because they don't read the books. In Kiss Me Deadly my story is better than his story. Anthony Quinn played in The Lond Wait and he didn't read the book either.”
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“I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.”
-- Mickey SpillaneSource : Interview with Michael Carlson, Crime Time, 2001.
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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.”
-- Mickey SpillaneSource : Interview with Michael Carlson, Crime Time, 2001.
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“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 SpillaneSource : "Spillane still on the case". Interview with Elaine Dutka, articles.latimes.com. February 8, 2004.
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