Mickey Spillane Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger.”

“Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo.”

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

“Imagine this guy hits Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger and knocks him out. You hit Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger, he'll beat the crap out of you.”

“I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien.”

“I try to stay in good physical shape, I don't smoke, I don't drink.”

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

“Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture.”

“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.”

“Critics themselves, they used to tear me up.”