The best Quotes by Mickey Spillane

The best Quotes by Mickey Spillane

Frank Morrison Spillane (March 9, 1918 - July 17, 2006), better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American crime novelist, whose stories often feature his signature detective character, Mike Hammer.

Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.

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Critics themselves, they used to tear me up.

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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 know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.

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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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