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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In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse.
There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.
They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to South Carolina - and that's pretty much the same thing.
Chess is a constant struggle between my desire not to lose and my desire not to think.
L.A. is amazing for me. I especially like the amazing cars.
Until you're the best at something, you've always got to work on everything.
I want to win every game I play because I hate losing.
If I had to choose between my wife & keeping Luka on the Mavs, catch me at my lawyer's office prepping for a divorce.
Mark Cuban - 2020

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