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 Spillane

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

- Mickey Spillane

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

- Mickey Spillane

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

- Mickey Spillane

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…

- Mickey Spillane

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

- Mickey Spillane

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…

- Mickey Spillane

Inspiration is an empty bank account.

- Mickey Spillane

The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle.

- Mickey Spillane