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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.
Mickey Spillane
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Mickey Spillane
Age: 88 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 9
Died: 2006
Died: July 17
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I have no fans. You know what I got? Customers. And customers are your friends.
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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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I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
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The first page sells this book. The last page sells your next book.
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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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If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.
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No one likes my books except the public.
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I'm actually a softie. Tough guys get killed too early... I've got a full head of hair and don't wear eyeglasses.
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Those big-shot writers ... could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.
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I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.
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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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Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.
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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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I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger.
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I'm the most translated writer in the world, behind Lenin, Tolstoy, Gorki and Jules Verne. And they're all dead.
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Inspiration is an empty bank account.
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The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle.
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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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I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien.
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I dont like any of them, because they don't read the books. In Kiss Me Deadly my story is better than his story. Anthony Quinn played in The Lond Wait and he didn't read the book either.
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