Mickey Spillane Quotes & Sayings
24 most famous Mickey Spillane quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American author who passed away on 17 July, 2006.
“If I need something, I'll invent it.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.”
“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.”
“Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer.”
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