American - Author | March 9, 1918 - July 17, 2006
Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.
Mickey Spillane
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Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.
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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.
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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.
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Critics themselves, they used to tear me up.
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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.
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I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.
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I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien.
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I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.
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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 pulps, then downhill further to the comics.
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I try to stay in good physical shape, I don't smoke, I don't drink.
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I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger.
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