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.
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
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
Those big-shot writers ... could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.
Mike Hammer drinks beer because I can't spell Cognac. - Mickey Spillane
Mike Hammer drinks beer because I can't spell Cognac.
I have no fans. You know what I got? Customers. And customers are your friends. - Mickey Spillane
I have no fans. You know what I got? Customers. And customers are your friends.
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 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…
I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book. - Mickey Spillane
I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
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
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…
Inspiration is an empty bank account. - Mickey Spillane
Inspiration is an empty bank account.
The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle. - Mickey Spillane
The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle.
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