American - Author | March 9, 1918 - July 17, 2006
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.
Mickey Spillane
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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.
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If I need something, I'll invent it.
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If the public likes you, you're good.
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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.
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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.
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Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.
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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.
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Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer.
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Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture.
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Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo.
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I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
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