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 Wai….

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

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

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..

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

Inspiration is an empty bank account..

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

If I need something, I'll invent it..

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

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….

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….

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

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….

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

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 ge….

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 pulp….

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 bette….

The first page sells this book. The last page sells your next book..

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

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

If the public likes you, you're good..