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If I need something, I'll invent it.
Mickey Spillane / Author
Ifs
Literature
Needs
Invent
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If the public likes you, you're good.
Mickey Spillane / Author
Ifs
Likes
Public
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Inspiration is an empty bank account.
Mickey Spillane / Author
Bank Accounts
Empty
Inspiration
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No one likes my books except the public.
Mickey Spillane / Author
Book
Language
Likes
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Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.
Mickey Spillane / Author
Book
Middle
Writing
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Critics themselves, they used to tear me up.
Mickey Spillane / Author
Critics
Tears
Used
Tear
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I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.
Mickey Spillane / Author
Book
History Books
Literature
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Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.
Mickey Spillane / Author
Author
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Mike Hammer drinks beer because I can't spell Cognac.
Mickey Spillane / Author
Beer
Cognac
Hammers
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I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger.
Mickey Spillane / Author
Comic
Danger
Hammers
Literature
Mike
Original
Hammer
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The first page sells this book. The last page sells your next book.
Mickey Spillane / Author
Book
Lasts
Pages
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I try to stay in good physical shape, I don't smoke, I don't drink.
Mickey Spillane / Author
Drink
Shapes
Smoke
Trying
Shape
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Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer.
Mickey Spillane / Author
Kings
Crazy
Literature
Now
Writer
Him
Stephen King
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The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.
Mickey Spillane / Author
Book
Lasts
Writing
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I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien.
Mickey Spillane / Author
Beatty
Rings
Ring
Pat
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Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture.
Mickey Spillane / Author
Bad News
Big Picture
Bigs
Literature
News
Picture
Victor
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I have no fans. You know what I got? Customers. And customers are your friends.
Mickey Spillane / Author
Customers
Fans
Knows
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I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.
Mickey Spillane / Author
Important
People
Self
People Know Understand
Awful Lot
Hollywood People
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The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle.
Mickey Spillane / Author
Inspirational
Book
Important
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I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
Mickey Spillane / Author
Author
Commercial
Margaret
Mitchell
One Book
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Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.
Mickey Spillane / Author
Smoke
Authors
Chimney
Coming
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If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.
Mickey Spillane / Author
Earth
Likes
Literature
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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.
Mickey Spillane / Author
House
Past
Smell
Survived
Hugo
Hurricane
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Those big-shot writers ... could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.
Mickey Spillane / Author
Caviar
Facts
Peanuts
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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.
Mickey Spillane / Author
Behinds
World
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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.
Mickey Spillane / Author
Eyeglasses
Guy
Hair
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I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am. Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.
Mickey Spillane / Author
Coming Out
Names
Want
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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 / Author
Literature
Thinking
Years
Writer
Avenue
Wherever
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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.
Mickey Spillane / Author
Famous
America
Book
Comic
Writing
Yeah
Captain
Captain America
Lee
Marvel
Oh Yeah
Stan
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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.
Mickey Spillane / Author
Firefighter
Hero
Redneck
Wayne
Die
Heroes
Why
Dead
Elvis
Older
Him
John
Otherwise
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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.
Mickey Spillane / Author
Art
Baseball
Baseball Player
Loses
Writing
Writer
Arm
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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.
Mickey Spillane / Author
New York
Boys
Country
Country Boy
Hate
Things Happen
Boy
Base
York
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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 / Author
Book
Cents
Grain
Grain Of Salt
Hated
Looks
Salt
Hemingway
Million
Mine
Sold
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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.
Mickey Spillane / Author
Dad
Catholic
Father
Mother
Dad Always Me
Churches
Dad Father Me
Protestant
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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.
Mickey Spillane / Author
Guy
Hammers
Literature
Mike
Beat
Hammer
Hits
Wooden
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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.
Mickey Spillane / Author
Book
Kissing
Waiting
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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.
Mickey Spillane / Author
Book
Literature
Middle
Mystery
Next
Sells
Writing
Anymore
Nobody
Buy
First
Read
Last
Page
Reads
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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.
Mickey Spillane / Author
High Level
House
Magazines
Names
Slick
Anyway
Downhill
Further
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I don't like people. I don't like any kind of people. When you get them together in a big lump they all get nasty and dirty and full of trouble. So I don't like people including you. That's what a misanthropist is.
Mickey Spillane / Author
Dirty
People
Together
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